Figure 3. Diversity measure of the transconjugant sewage
community. The top row of plots shows phylogenetic alpha
diversity measures of the sewage community transconjugant pools of pB10
and R27, colored and plotted on the x-axis as “Plasmid”. Boxplot a)
shows on the y-axis Faith’s Phylogenetic Diversity (PD). Boxplot b)
shows on the y-axis mean pairwise distance (MPD). The bottom row of
plots shows beta diversity, measured by weighted Unifrac distances,
between the sewage community transconjugant pools and the recipient
sewage community. Dot plot c) shows a Principal Coordinates Analysis
(PCoA) of the weighted Unifrac distance, colored according to sample
group. Boxplot d) shows on the y-axis the pairwise weighted Unifrac
distance (WGT. Unifrac dist.), colored and plotted on the x-axis
according to the group pair (Sample Group).