Fig. 3.
Composition of the gut microbiota in obese mice. (A) Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) for the weighted UniFrac distance in each of the microbial communities in this study. (B) Relative abundance of the notable bacterial phyla. (C) Ratio of the percentage of 16S rRNA gene sequences assigned to Firmicutes versus Bacteroidetes. (D) Absolute abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila in each fecal sample as quantified using qPCR. Data are expressed as the mean ± SEM. *p<0.05 versus the HFHS group (n=6). **p<0.01 versus the HFHS group (n=6).