Table 5.

Differentially abundant taxa at family level among three gut sites (ascending colon, descending colon, rectum) in the live MAM.

Family	Relative abundance (%)	padj	Groups compared	log2FC
Enterobacteriaceae	25.1	0.00055	Descending colon vs Rectum	− 4.2
			Ascending colon vs Rectum	− 3.7

The live MAM samples (n = 24, eight subjects over three gut sites) were used in DESeq2 analysis with full model of ~ subject + gut_sites and reduced model of ~ subject.

Criteria for inclusion: Relative abundance > 1% and padj < 0.01.

Relative abundance; mean on relative abundance of normalized counts for subset samples.

padj: the Benjamini–Hochberg adjusted P value.

log2FC: log2(fold change).

Gut sites compared: e.g., “Descending colon vs Rectum” means that log2FC means log2(Descending colon/rectum).

MAM mucosa‒associated microbiota, LM luminal microbiota.