Figure 3
Alpha diversity, beta diversity and microbiome composition of the bacterial communities. (a) The Chao 1, OTUs, and Shannon and Simpson indexes were used to estimate the richness and diversity of the intestinal microbiota. (b) Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean (UPGMA) tree based on unweighted Unifrac distance matrix. (c) PCoA, based on unweighted Unifrac distance, was used to reveal the structural segregation of bacterial communities among the four groups. (d) Abundance of Actinobacteria and proportions (genus level) of Allobaculum, Barnesiella and Clostridium XI among the four groups. *p < 0.05, #p < 0.01. n = 8 in each group and duplicate measurements were made.
