Fig. 6.
Impacts of BDE-47 exposure on the richness and pattern of maternal intestinal microbiota. A) Venn diagram of shared and unique OUT numbers of BDE-47-treated rats compared to controls. B) Alpha diversity indexes of gut microbiota in the control (n = 4) and BDE-47-treated rats (n = 6). The top and bottom boundaries of each box indicate the 75th and 25th percentiles, respectively; the line within each box represents the median; the bottom and top edges show the minimum and maximum, respectively. C) The observed species number. D-E) Gut microbial pattern at the phylum level within D) and between E) the control (n = 4) and the BDE-47 groups (n = 6) were assessed using 16S high throughput sequencing. This figure is reproduced from [129] with permission.
