Fig. 2
From: Human nasal microbiota shifts in healthy and chronic respiratory disease conditions
Comparative analysis of nasal microbiome diversity and abundance by sex or environmental factors in healthy individuals. A) A PCoA plot based on the weighted UniFrac distance, with orange dots indicating those from herbal distillery companies, and blue dots representing participants from other workplaces. Overlaid dashed ellipses categorize the groups based on sex, with triangles for male participants and circles for females, showing no distinct clustering within groups. B) Boxplots displaying alpha diversity indices: Shannon, Inverted Simpson, and Richness (number of unique identified taxonomies) across herbal distillery and other workplace groups. Participants from herbal distilleries exhibit statistically significant differences in all metrics (p-value < 0.05). C) Boxplots showing the relative abundance of statistically different (p-value < 0.05) order-level taxonomy organisms between the participants from herbal distilleries and other workplaces. D) Boxplots comparing alpha diversity indices between male and female participants, revealing no statistical differences. E) Boxplots illustrating genus-level organisms with statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences in relative abundance between different sex groups