Fig. 2

Taxonomicclassificationofgroupsinthisstudy.Class-leveltaxonomicclassificationwasbased upon average proportional abundance of normalized samples. Designations in the X-axis are “CF”, individual birds from commercial flock (experiment #2); “RF”, individual birds from research flock (experiment #2); “Heavy”, pooled samples categorized as heavy weights (experiment #1); and “Light”, pooled samples categorized as lighter weights (experiment #1). “W”, age of birds in weeks.