Figure 3: Increased gut bacterial diversity in children with egg allergy.
Alpha diversity estimated by (A) Chao1 index (species-based richness), (B) Faith’s phylogenetic diversity (divergence-based richness), and (C) Shannon (H) index (richness and evenness) at rarefaction depth of 2000 reads for subjects with egg allergy and controls. Mean and standard deviation alpha diversity were estimated by subsampling 10 times for each sample at this rarefaction depth. P-values were calculated using the Wilcoxon rank sum test.