Fig. 1: Salt intake altered faecal microbiota.
From: The microbiota-gut-kidney axis mediates host osmoregulation in a small desert mammal
Alpha diversity indicated by observed operation taxonomic units (OTUs, P = 0.005), and phylogenetic diversity (PD) whole tree (P = 0.013) (a); principal coordinate analyses (PCoA) plots based on weighted (P = 0.001) and unweighted (P = 0.001) UniFrac distances in faecal microbiota of different groups (b); relative abundances of different bacteria at the phylum and genus levels in different experimental groups (“+” indicates the mean value) (c); and concentrations of different short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) (d, e) in control (Con), medium salt (MS), and high salt (HS) gerbils. Data are presented as means ± standard error of the mean (s.e.m), and the bars which do not share the same letter are significantly different from each other (P < 0.05).
