Fig. 3

The lung microbiota in West Highland white terrier affected with canine idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (CIPF). The influence of CIPF on the lung microbiota was evaluated by comparison between healthy domestic dogs from different breeds (healthy dogs), healthy West Highland white terriers (H-WHWTs) and WHWTs affected with CIPF (D-WHWTs). The parameters studied to assess the lung microbiota included; the bacterial load (a), the α-diversity (b), the richness (c), the evenness (d), the β-diversity (e) represented by a non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) graph based on a Bray-Curtis matrix and the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) where only significant genera were represented (f). *P = 0.007