1. Fig. 3. Phospholipid fatty acids in N. nana brown adipose tissue.
Phospholipid fatty acids in N. nana brown adipose tissue. (A) Mean BAT phospholipid fatty acid concentrations (error bars=s.d.) in brown adipose tissue of N. nana bats collected from reference sites, Verulam WWTW and Umbilo WWTW. Asterisks indicate significant differences between sites as derived from two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's multiple comparisons test. *P<0.05; **P<0.01; ***P< Only fatty acids that were significantly different between sites are shown. (B) Heat map representing fatty acid concentrations in brown adipose tissue of individual bats relative to the average of the reference site, with each column presenting an individual bat. (C) Non-metric multidimensional scaling of fatty acids of bats. Convex hulls connect bats from polluted sites [U (Umbilo WWTW) and V (Verulam WWTW)] and unpolluted sites [UM (Umdoni) and B (Buffelsdrift farm)]. The blue shaded area represents WWTW bats, and the orange shaded area represents reference site bats.
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