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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Recent urbanization in China is correlated with a Westernized microbiome encoding increased virulence and antibiotic resistance genes

Fig. 5

The microbiome of urban Chinese subjects encodes more genetic diversity, including more genes conferring antibiotic resistance, than rural Chinese subjects. a PCoA plot and comparison of Shannon diversity index for KEGG modules and b KEGG pathways. Blue points indicate rural subjects while red points indicate urban subjects. Numbers in parentheses on the PCoA axes indicate the percent variation explained by that axis. c P values comparing the position on the first PCoA axis (solid line) or Shannon diversity (dashed line) of urban and rural subjects. The gray region indicates significant P values (p < 0.05). d–e Comparison of the proportion of reads from whole genome sequencing that aligned to (d) the CARD protein homolog database [31] or e MvirDB [32]. The asterisk (*) in d indicates a P value of less than 0.05 comparing urban and rural subjects (p = 0.01), while two asterisks (**) in e indicates a P value of less than 0.01 (p = 0.006)

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