Additional file 12: of Skin and gut microbiomes of a wild mammal respond to different environmental cues

Measures of alpha diversity for the skin and gut microbiome of bank voles inhabiting areas that differ in levels of environmental radiation. Box-and-whisker plots represent the median and interquartile range of alpha diversity estimates (i.e. number of observed OTUs, Shannon index). Each point represent a single sample from contaminated (CH) and uncontaminated (CL) with radionuclides areas within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and uncontaminated area near Kyiv (KL), Ukraine. (PDF 39 kb