Fig. 2

Alpha diversity of cutaneous microbial communities across treatment groups and sampling time (reference Fig. 1). a Simpson’s diversity differed among sampling time but treatment did not have an impact. b Simpson’s evenness (ED) differed over treatments and time. c Observed OTU richness (Sobs) differed across sampling time but not treatments. The legend is applicable to all biodiversity figures. Letters denote significant differences among sampling times. Repeated measures ANOVA statistics are listed in Table 1. Values are the mean (± s.e.) of the biodiversity statistics calculated by mothur