Revealing the Diversity of the Mycobiome in Different Phases of Ticks: ITS Gene-Based Analysis

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(a–c) Fungal diversity in Dermacentor nuttalli collected from parasitic ticks or nonparasitic ticks in Wuwei, Gansu Province, China, the dot points represent the index of each of the samples. (a) Boxplot showed fungi alpha diversity between two groups based on the Shannon index. (b) Boxplot showed fungi alpha diversity between two groups based on the Simpson index. (c) Boxplot showed fungi alpha diversity between two groups based on the richness index. (d) Beta diversity based on principal coordinate analysis of weighted UniFrac distances. (e) The extended error barplot shows the abundances of different fungi abundances in the two groups of samples. The middle shows the abundances of different species within the 95% confidence intervals. The value on the far right is the p-value. A (blue) and B (red) represent ticks collected from parasitic ticks and nonparasitic ticks, respectively.

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