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Figure 3. Influence of sport types on microbiome diversity. (A) Differences in alpha diversity calculated using the Shannon and Simpson diversity metrics across sports groups and sedentary controls; (B) PCoA of beta diversity by intervention, measured by Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and calculated for species-level composition. Points are colored according to sports and sedentary control populations; (C) Unique association scores as measured by MaAsLin2 between microbial species (Y-axis) and the population groups (X-axis). q values indicated as ^*q < 0.2; ^**q < 0.05; ^***q < 0.001. PCoA: Principal coordinate analysis.