Fig. 2: Characteristics of four calf enterotypes associated with age and diet. | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Fig. 2: Characteristics of four calf enterotypes associated with age and diet.

From: The Bifidobacterium-dominated fecal microbiome in dairy calves shapes the characteristic growth phenotype of host

Fig. 2

a CH index of enterotype robustness. b Principal coordinate analysis of the four differential clusters based on all samples. c Proportions of the four clusters at different calf ages. d Distribution of enterotypes at different calf ages. The significance between groups was assessed using ANOSIM. e Box plots of relative abundance of the major bacterial contributor of each enterotype. The five horizontal lines in the box plots represented the upper limit, the upper quartile, the median, the lower quartile, and the lower limit. f Sanky diagram of transitioning of the four enterotypes at different calf ages. g Markov chain analysis with subject-independent transition probabilities among the four enterotypes. h PERMANOVA analysis of the amount of variance explained by multiple factors influencing the gut microbiota. Only the significant differences were marked (*p < 0.05, **0.01< p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001).

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