Fig. 3
From: Impacts of a novel defensive symbiosis on the nematode host microbiome
E. faecalis conferring enhanced protection colonizes hosts at higher density and reduces pathogen-induced host mortality in a microbiome context. a. Within-host colony-forming units of evolved and ancestral E. faecalis symbiont (logeCFUs presented). b.C. elegans mortality after symbiont, compost, and pathogen exposures. c. Correlation between E. faecalis colonization density pathogen-induced mortality in hosts with a microbiota. n = 5 populations per treatment. Error bars = ± s.e. Yellow, OP50 food; Green, Anc, ancestral E. faecalis; Dark blue, NP, E. faecalis no enhanced protection; Light blue, P, E. faecalis enhanced protection