Figure 2.

Redundancy analysis of the microbiota composition of the lower back of 12 adults for determining the most important variables (17 in total) explaining the variation in microbiota composition at the genus level. Genera that represented at least 85.1% of the first two principal components used as explanatory axis in the plots are shown as vectors. The first component and second component explain 32.6% and 24.4% of the variance, respectively. This figure was generated with Canoco version 4.5. The different variables are represented by arrows, where length reflects significance. Colors indicate sample groupings: red arrows represent all individuals, green arrows represent the males and females, and the blue arrows correspond to the stripping depth (STR0 is non-damaged healthy superficial skin, and STR5 and STR10 represent 5 and 10 times tape-stripped skin, respectively). The microbial genera are shown in black text color.