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Figure 1. Seasonal variations in the Chinese mole shrew diet.
(A) Seasonal changes in animal and plant food items at different
taxonomic levels. (B) Seasonal changes in the numbers and proportions of
earthworms at the species level. Different letters indicate a difference
between seasons (P < 0.05).
Figure 2. Box-and-whisker plots for alpha diversity in animal
(A) and plant (B) food item estimators (Chao1, Shannon, and Simpson
indices).
Figure 3. Two-dimensional principal coordinate analysis (PCoA)
of MOTUs of the Chinese mole shrew diet throughout the year. (A)
represents animal food items and (B) represents plant food items. The
first two principal coordinate (PC) axes are shown.
Figure 4. Heat map and FO of predominant animal (A) and plant
(B) food items throughout the year. Each number in the heat map
indicates the relative abundance of the corresponding food.
Abbreviations: Sp, spring; Su, summer; A, autumn; W, winter.
Figure 5. Relative abundance of the top 10 animal food items at
the species level based on the COI metabarcoding assay.
Figure 6. Relative abundance of the top 10 plant food items at
the species level based on the rbcL metabarcoding assay.
Figure 7. Animal (A) and plant (B) food items at taxonomic
levels significantly differentiated between seasons as determined by
linear discriminatory analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe). LDA scores
were interpreted as the degree of difference in relative abundance.