Fig. 2: Microbial taxa associated with gastric cancer.

a Bar plots showing the taxonomic levels of the phylum in the tissues of chronic gastritis and GC. b Cladogram representation of the differential gastric microbiota taxa between GC and chronic gastritis. For the cladogram, labels such as c1 and c2 are used to annotate specific nodes that represent branching points with a common ancestor. c The relationship between particular microbiota taxa and groups with chronic gastritis and GC as established by linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe). d The relative abundance of the top 15 genera that were found to be differentially enriched in the two clinical situations for the cohorts with chronic gastritis and GC. *Significance was determined by the Wilcoxon rank-sum test and LEfSe analysis at P < 0.05.