Fig. 5: Predicted metabolic properties of the core cecum microbiome.
From: Growth promotion and antibiotic induced metabolic shifts in the chicken gut microbiome
a) The predicted ability of each core genera to use individual compounds as main carbon sources for biomass synthesis. Core genera are shown in the columns grouped by taxonomic family. Each row represents a distinct carbon-containing compound. b) Like a but for the ability to use individual compounds as main nitrogen sources. c) The number of carbon sources with significantly (one-sided Mann-Whitney U p-value < 0.05) higher or lower utilization potential in samples from each of the AGP treatments compared to control. d) Like c but for compounds used as nitrogen sources. e) The total metabolic demand for core microbiome biomass synthesis across treatments. The total metabolic demand represents the likelihood that any given metabolite is essential for the growth of a random member of the core cecum microbiome. Boxes represent the median and interquartile range; whiskers indicate the range of the distribution excluding outliers. * two-sided Mann-Whitney U p-value < 5 × 10−3. n = 15 birds per treatment. C control, B BMD, A avilamycin, V virginiamycin, N narasin.
