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. 2017 Jun 28;7:4339. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04511-0

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Effects of pretreatment on microbial composition in fecal samples stored in GuSCN solution. (a) Microbial composition of fecal samples from 18 healthy individuals at the phylum level. DNA was extracted directly from fecal samples in GuSCN solution by the bead beating method and sequenced. (b) Relative abundance of Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and Proteobacteria before and after pre-treatment in the DNA extraction procedure is shown. Data are presented as means ± SD (n = 6). An asterisk means statistically significant difference as calculated by using Student’s t test (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01).