Figure 3.

XOS intervention attenuated intestinal microbiota alteration induced by surgery. (A) Taxonomic cladogram obtained from linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe). Biomarker taxa are highlighted by colored circles and shaded areas. The diameter of each circle reflects the abundance of that taxa in the community. (B) Taxa with a different abundance among four groups, and a total of 46 taxa were screened out with a linear discriminant analysis threshold score of 2.0. (C) The principal co-ordinates analysis (three-dimensional) of the intestinal microbiome composition on the genus level based on the weighted-unifrac distance among the four groups (n=6), Kruskal-Wallis test p<0.05 and log 10 LDA threshold=2.