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From: Comprehensive analysis of gut microbiota of a healthy population and covariates affecting microbial variation in two large Japanese cohorts

Fig. 1

Gut microbiota distribution of the NIBIOHN cohort and MORINAGA cohort (a) Microbial community variation in each cohort represented by principal coordinates analysis (PCoA, genus-level JSD) and PAM clustering. Arrows indicated enterotype drivers; Bacteroides-enterotype (green), Prevotella-enterotype (blue), and Faecalibacterium-enterotype or Bifidobacterium-enterotype (red). b The estimated result of suitability of cluster number Calinski-Harabasz index (CH index) (c) The distribution of integrated data of two cohorts (d) The distribution of alpha diversity indices of NIBIOHN cohort (yellow) and MORINAGA cohort (blue) (e) The dominant genus among the two cohorts and their composition. **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 (Wilcoxon rank sum test)

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BMC Microbiology

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