Fig. 8
Integrated correlation of gut microbial genus and fecal metabolites. Heatmap of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between differentially abundant genus and metabolites in A1 vs. B1 and F1 vs. T2. The red or blue color in each square represents positive or negative relationships, respectively. Statistically significant correlations were marked with asterisks (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, and ***p < 0.001). A1: Central lymph node metastasis, B1: Lateral lymph node metastasis, F1: Number of lymph node metastases is less than 5, T2: Number of lymph node metastases exceeds 10.
