Figure 5.

Partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) of bacterial communities comparing taxa that were associated with the Control or CST treatments in the mice fecal samples. All taxa are colored based on the phyla to which they belong. Some sequences could only be affiliated to phylum (P), order (O), family (F), or class (C) levels. Specific taxa were significantly associated with each treatment group, which may be an indicator of an alteration in the physiological or metabolic processes that the taxa may influence.