Diversity and enterotype in gut bacterial community of adults in Taiwan

BMC Genomics

Table 4 Significant genus lists categorized by enterotype-related metadata

Features	Family	Genus	p. value	Mean separation
Enterotype	Bacteroidaceae	Bacteroides	<0.0001	T2 > T1 = T3
	Prevotellaceae	Prevotella	<0.0001	T3 > T1 > T2
	Enterobacteriaceae ^a	Escherichia	<0.0001	T1 > T2 = T3
	Enterobacteriaceae ^a	Klebsiella	0.0006	T1 > T2 = T3
	Enterobacteriaceae ^a	Salmonella	0.0060	T1 > T3
	Bifidobacteriaceae	Bifidobacterrium	0.0394	T1 > T3
	Pseudomonadaceae	Pseudomonas	0.0198	T1 > T2
	Verrucomicrobiaceae	Akkermansia ^b	0.0017	T1 > T2 = T3
Stool	Veillonellaceae	Dialister	0.0423	D1 + < D05
Stool	Verrucomicrobiaceae	Akkermansia ^b	0.0012^§	D1 + < D05
Shape	Porphyromonadaceae	Parabacteroides	0.0106	Hard > Watery
Shape	Prevotellaceae	Prevotella	0.0056	Hard > Watery
Protein	Bifidobacteriaceae	Bifidobacterium	0.0170	Red > non-red
	Veillonellaceae	Megamonas	0.0268	Red < non-red
	Verrucomicrobiaceae	Akkermansia ^b	0.0042	Red > non-red

§p value was calculated by ANOVA (not significant in the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test)
^aGenus within the same family
^bGenus associated with multiple metadata

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