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Figure 1 : Aerial
photographs of sampling sites for A) P. siculus, B) P.
viriscens, C) Teira dugesii and D) P. bocagei andP. lusitanicus. Specific collection areas are delimited by yellow
lines). Map data ©2021 Google
Figure 2: Boxplots of the alpha-diversity indices (Faith’s
phylogenetic diversity, Shannon diversity and the number of observed
ASVs) for the gut microbiome of the studied lizards.
Figure 3: PCoA plots representing Bray–Curtis and Unweighted
Unifrac distances, grouped by species with 95% confidence interval
ellipse.
Figure 4: Relative
abundance of the most abundant bacterial genera in the gut microbiome of
the studied lizard species from Lisboa (A) and from Moledo (B).
Figure 5 : Linear regression plot between size (SVL) and gut
bacterial alpha-diversity (Shannon index) for Podarcis siculus. The
coloured area represents the 95% confidence limit.