Figure 2

Fecal microbiota analysis by 16 S rRNA gene amplicon analysis. (a) Diversity within samples (alpha-diversity) was estimated by species richness and Shannon-effective counts. (b) meta nonparametric multidimensional scaling plot of phylogenetic distances based on generalized UniFrac (beta-diversity). (c) Occurrence of members of the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Enterobacteriaceae, including significance before and after Benjamini-Hochberg adjustment. (d) Relative abundances of five dominant OTUs showing significance overtime. ***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01; *P < 0.5.