Fig. 5: Caecal microbiota transplant (CMT) restructured the gut microbiota profile.
From: The microbiota-gut-kidney axis mediates host osmoregulation in a small desert mammal
Observed operation taxonomic units (OTUs, P < 0.001), and phylogenetic diversity (PD) whole tree (P < 0.001) (a); principal coordinate analyses (PCoA) plots based on weighted (P = 0.004) and unweighted (P = 0.001) UniFrac distances in the faecal microbiota of different groups (b); relative abundances of different bacteria at the species level in the experimental groups (c); differential bacterial taxa selected by LEfSe analysis with LDA > 2 in the faecal bacterial community (d); faecal concentrations of different short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) (e, f) and serum concentrations of total bile acids (g). Data are presented as means ± standard error of the mean (s.e.m), and bars which do not share the same letter are significantly different from each other (P < 0.05). Con, gerbils drank tap water ad libitum and received sterile saline as sham-CMT via oral gavage; Con-HS, Con gerbils received microbiota from HS gerbils via oral gavage; HS, gerbils drank water with 8% NaCl ad libitum and received sterile saline as sham-CMT via oral gavage; HS-Con, gerbils drank HS water ad libitum and received microbiota from the Con gerbils via oral gavage.
