Figure 6.

Estimates of microbial community assembly mechanisms structuring samples from four different cohorts (gut male, gut female, oral male, and oral female). (A) phylogenetic alpha diversity measure, nearest taxon index (NTI) to elucidate environmental pressures (signficances are calculated with ANOVA). (B) Normalised stochasticity ratio (NST) calculated as both incidence based (presence/absence) Jaccard and abundance based Ruzicka metrics with PF and PP being the null modelling regime used. PANOVA connects pairwise categories where the estimates are statistically significant in terms of NST; (C) Proportion of assembly processes returned from applying quantitative processing estimate (QPE) for all four cohorts presented as both deterministic and stochastic measures. Lines connecting categories shows significant relationships: blank p < 0.1, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01), or *** p < 0.001).