1. (A) Amphibian SourceTracker analysis reveals that water is the only sample type that obtains a notable amount of its microbial community from amphibian skin; unknown sources (i.e., not amphibian skin) are the main microbiome contributors to soil and sediment.
(A) Amphibian SourceTracker analysis reveals that water is the only sample type that obtains a notable amount of its microbial community from amphibian skin; unknown sources (i.e., not amphibian skin) are the main microbiome contributors to soil and sediment. (B) Independence tests reveal that amphibian skin is independently specific to species. (C) Designating environment the source and amphibian skin the sink reveals that water is the only environmental type that contributes largely to the microbial communities on amphibian skin, with unknown sources also largely contributing to the amphibian skin microbiome. (D) Independence tests reveal that each environment type is also independent from each other environment type. Data are the means ± standard errors of the means (error bars).
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