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. 2015 Oct 16;10(5):1217–1227. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.183

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Analysis of bacterial community structure through 16S rRNA genes. Mean relative abundances of order level taxa in fecal bacterial communities present at >1% in (a) baseline LF and (b) baseline MF mice. Data are shown as mean±s.e.m.; P-values (ANOVA) as shown on graph. (c) Principal coordinate analysis plot of the bacterial community structure based on Bray–Curtis distances. Symbols represent individual mice, coded by color to represent collection day. (d) Principal coordinate analysis of second and third principal coordinate axes, based on Bray–Curtis distances. Colored symbols are the diet the mice were consuming on each experimental day, denoted as the number below each symbol. Changes in alpha diversity of fecal bacterial communities during dietary perturbation and washout: (e) Shannon diversity index values and (f) number of observed species. Data are shown as mean±s.e.m., P-values are shown *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001, ****P<0.0001 comparing the means of both treatment groups at each time point; ANOVA, Bonferroni's multiple comparison test.