Fig. 8

E. coli virulence-related metabolic traits and detected virulence factors at 7 days post weaning. (A) Abundance of respiratory nitrate reductase subunits PFAMs at 7dpw, in each treatment, separated by consistency. (B) Contribution of each species to each nitrate reductase subunit PFAM in each treatment separated by consistency at 7dpw. (C) Ordination of samples according to PFAM abundance and virulence factor genes occurrence, using Bray-Curtis and Simple Matching coefficient (SMC), respectively. (D) Frequency of significant different virulence factors detected in Faeces and Diarrhoea at 7dpw. (E) Heatmap of occurrence of virulence factors in samples clustered by Ward clustering of SMC distances between samples