Figure 1.

(A) Alpha-diversity represented by the Pielou evenness index in the BV and normal samples indicating significant difference (p-value = 0.0165) between the groups based on the Kruskal-Wallis test. The boxes represent the distributions of the alpha diversity index and show the median for each condition. Whiskers extend to the furthest data point. (B) PCoA generated using weighted Unifrac distance indicates distinct clustering of samples from each group. Each point corresponds to an individual sample. For each experimental group, an ellipse around the centroid is depicted. The first two components of the variance are represented by Plotting BV(blue) vs Normal (Red) samples with significant separation between the two groups. The first two components represent 78.32 percent of variance, individually depicted in parentheses next to Axis1 and Axis2.