Fig. 7.

Heat map indicating the correlation between microbiota (family) and lipids, bile acids, visceral fat, and cecal short-chain fatty acids.

The heat map indicates the correlation between the relative abundances of bacterial families and liver lipids, liver cholesterol, liver triglyceride, fecal lipids, fecal bile acids, visceral fat, visceral fat/body weight (BW), and the concentrations of cecal acetic acid, cecal butyric acid, cecal propionic acid, cecal valeric acid, cecal isovaleric acid, and cecal total short-chain fatty acids. In this heat map, the negative correlation becomes stronger as the blue intensity increases, while the positive correlation becomes stronger as the red intensity increases.