Figure 6.
Correlation between animal gut microbiota components and BAs. The color is according to the Pearson correlation coefficients; positive correlations are shown in red, while negative correlations are depicted in blue. The color intensity and the size of the circle are proportional to the correlation values. In addition, a significant correlation was highlighted by a white asterisk in the centre of each circle (p ≤ 0.001). BA and bacterial genus correlation profiles were clustered using a hierarchical clustering approach, using the profile Pearson correlation value as a similarity measure and Ward’s linkage method. The obtained clusters were represented by dendrograms at the top and left margins of the correlogram. Within each cluster, both BAs and bacterial genera were coloured according to the colour legend in the top right of the figure to highlight the significantly most abundant genus or BA in a specific animal species (see Supplementary Material Figs. S4 and S5).