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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Microb Ecol. 2016 Jun 16;72(2):470–478. doi: 10.1007/s00248-016-0800-2

Table 1.

Host metrics between the transplant (n = 5) nd no transplant (n = 3) groups after 6 days on 1.5% oxalate for each of the three replicate diet trials, which corresponds to 3, 69, and 279 days after the microbial transplant

Metric Mean (g) ± SE
F value P value
Time point 3 Days
69 Days
279 Days
Treatment Transplant No transplant Transplant No transplant Transplant No transplant
Body mass 173.7 ± 2.3 173.7 ± 0.7 441.3 ± 1 444.1 ± 6.3 563.8 ± 16.9 541.6 ± 10.3 0.0 0.94
Food intake 17.2 ± 0.29 15.58 ± 0.25 18.16 ± 0.48 17.6 ± 0.17 17.93 ± 1.01 12.87 ± 0.07 16.4 <0.001
Oxalate intake 0.26 ± 0.004 0.23 ± 0.007 0.27 ± 0.007 0.26 ± 0.003 0.26 ± 0.19 0.19 ± 0.007 13.6 0.001
Fecal output 3.5 ± 0.1 3.3 ± 0.1 3.3 ± 0.2 3.3 ± 0.3 3.2 ± 0.3 2.3 ± 0.2 4.1 0.06
DMD 0.80 ± 0.007 0.79 ± 0.004 0.82 ± 0.006 0.81 ± 0.01 0.82 ± 0.009 0.82 ± 0.02 0.9 0.37
Water intake 27.1 ± 1.7 26.9 ± 0.8 27.9 ± 3.1 23.5 ± 1.2 26.9 ± 2 31.6 ± 2.0 0.0 0.99
Urine output 9.6 ± 1.5 8.8 ± 0.9 10.5 ± 1.9 6.4 ± 1.3 11.5 ± 1.3 13.5 ± 1.3 0.4 0.55

Data were analyzed with a repeated measures ANOVA (df = 1.8). The F and P values presented are for the contrast between transplant and no transplant