Table 7.
The relative abundance of the dominant bacteria in faecal samples from mice at the species level (%, n = 6).
| Bacteria | db/m + PBS |
db/db + PBS |
db/db + KNGT |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Bacteroides uniformis | 0.007 | 0.004 | 0.001# | 0.001 | 0.038* | 0.04 |
| Bacteroides acidifaciens | 0.265 | 0.32 | 0.885 | 0.80 | 0.660 | 0.43 |
| Bacteroides caccae | 0.153 | 0.11 | 1.591 | 1.24 | 2.067 | 1.91 |
| Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum | 0.256 | 0.08 | 0.453 | 0.19 | 0.269 | 0.3 |
| Helicobacter hepaticus | 0.017 | 0.01 | 0.391 | 0.29 | 0.298 | 0.27 |
| Mucispirillum schaedleri | 0.021 | 0.03 | 0.830 | 1.89 | 0.161 | 0.25 |
| Ruminococcus flavefaciens | 0.306 | 0.32 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.000 | 0 |
| Ruminococcus gnavus | 2.435 | 3.71 | 1.044 | 0.38 | 1.151 | 1.27 |
| Unclassified | 93.939 | 87.695 | 93.064 | |||
| Others | 2.602 | 7.110 | 2.293 | |||
Results were obtained using the Kruskal–Wallis test. Mouse faeces were tested at week 6. ‘Others’ refer to bacteria not indicated in the table. #p < 0.05 compared to db/m + PBS mice. *p < 0.05 compared to db/db + PBS mice.