Routine Habitat Change: A Source of Unrecognized Transient Alteration of Intestinal Microbiota in Laboratory Mice (original) (raw)
Figure 4
LAB-TRFLP analysis of fecal microbiota in mice following a combined facility/cage change.
A) Principal coordinate analysis of LAB-TRFLP data at days 0, 1 and 5 in the control group (group 3, n = 8). Each data point represents a single mouse specimen at days 0 (pink circles), 1 (black squares), and 5 (yellow triangles). B) Taxonomic plot of lactic acid bacterial profiles on days 0, 1 and 5. Operational taxonomic units were assigned based on an in silico digest-database to estimate relative proportions of the Lactobacillales present in the samples. Each bar represents a single mouse specimen. Mice A, B, G, H were males; C, D, E, F were females.