FIGURE 3.
Volcano Plot of PICRUSt analysis. Significant metabolic pathways down-regulated in the gut microbiota of individuals during the PCSI are represented in different colors with their corresponding MetaCyc ID. Metabolic pathways without a statistically significant difference between groups are shown in gray. The W-value represents the number of times the null-hypothesis (the average abundance of a given feature in a group is equal to that in the other group) was rejected for a given metabolic pathway. Red dash lines indicate a significance a priori threshold for differentially abundance set at W ≥ 324 (W > 80% of the total number of metabolic pathways) and clr (centered logarithmic ratio) > |2|.