Table 3.

The relative abundance of gut microbiota in different puberty status at phylum level

	Pubertal			Pre-pubertal
	Male	Female	P value	Male	Female	P value
Actinobacteria	0.023	0.017	0.669	0.014	0.014	0.631
Bacteroidetes	0.342	0.368	0.638	0.329	0.329	0.324
Firmicutes	0.514	0.435	0.223	0.547	0.547	0.957
Fusobacteria	0.006	0.018	0.696	0.016	0.016	0.097
Proteobacteria	0.112	0.159	0.494	0.092	0.092	0.522
Synergistetes	0.000	0.000	0.724	0.000	0.000	0.774
Tenericutes	0.002	0.002	0.104	0.001	0.001	0.231
TM7	0.000	0.000	0.417	0.000	0.000	0.044
Verrucomicrobia	0.000	0.002	0.054	0.002	0.002	0.393