Table 6.

Significant Pearson’s Correlations^§ between the abundance of ileum bacteria species and plasma lipid parameters^†.

OTUs	HDL
Firmicutes
Uncl. Lactobacillus (4414257)	−0.654*
Proteobacteria
Uncl. Gluconacetobacter (656881)	0.690*
Uncl. Acinetobacter (4361528)	0.748*
Uncl. Acinetobacter (1085703)	0.717*
Acinetobacter guillouiae (4449456)	0.655*
Acinetobacter johnsonii (4333705)	0.782**
Uncl. Enhydrobacter (235065)	0.643*

^†RES and SUS fed the cholesterol diet; N = 10.

^§After elimination of significant correlations due to a single outlier.

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01.