Fig. 2

The composition of gut microbiota in the MSTN-edited and wild-type groups. A The statistical graphs of alpha diversity of gut microbiota among the GEF, WTF, GEM and WTM. B Bray–Curtis-based PCoA of the gut microbiota in the GEF and WTF. The P-value was based on ANOSIM. The boxplot shows the discrete distribution of samples along the PC1 and PC2 axes. C The significantly different phyla between the GEF and WTF. D The histogram of the dominant genera in the GEF, WTF, GEM and WTM. E The significantly different genera between the GEF and WTF. F The significantly different species between the GEF and WTF. (0.01 < P ≤ 0.05 *, 0.001 < P ≤ 0.01 **). G LEfSe analysis of the GEF and WTF. The histogram shows the microbes that can best illustrate the difference between the GEF and WTF. The larger the LDA score, the greater the contribution of the corresponding microbe to the difference