Figure 3.
Esophageal microbiome diversity is increased by HFD + DCA treatment. Shannon index and microbial richness of esophageal microbiome data was measured using rank test for (a) each of the four treatment groups, (b) combining HFD/Water and HFD/DCA groups into the HFD group, and Chow/Water + Chow/DCA into the Chow group, or (c) combining Chow/DCA and HFD/DCA groups into the DCA group, and Chow/Water + Chow/DCA into the Water group. * p-value < 0.01.