Effects of Melatonin on Intestinal Microbiota and Oxidative Stress in Colitis Mice

Table 2

Composition of fecal bacterial communities at the genus level of mice.

Phyla	Genus	DSS	MEL
Bacteroidetes	Alloprevotella	3.50 ± 0.84	2.16 ± 0.64
	Bacteroides	18.49 ± 2.96	11.76 ± 0.83
	Parabacteroides	2.23 ± 0.50	2.25 ± 0.96
Firmicutes	Anaerotruncus	0.62 ± 0.18	1.36 ± 0.57
	Coprococcus_1	0.52 ± 0.08	1.95 ± 0.43
	Erysipelatoclostridium	1.77 ± 0.57	2.24 ± 0.71
	Intestinimonas	0.53 ± 0.15	1.30 ± 0.39
	Lachnoclostridium	0.92 ± 0.23	0.63 ± 0.16
	Lachnospiraceae_NK4A136_group	7.82 ± 2.70	8.24 ± 2.48
	Lactobacillus	0.71 ± 0.23	0.89 ± 0.36
	Ruminiclostridium_9	1.55 ± 0.46	2.07 ± 0.57
	Ruminococcaceae_UCG-014	0.67 ± 0.05	1.82 ± 0.20
Proteobacteria	Desulfovibrio	0.70 ± 0.18	1.26 ± 0.30
	Helicobacter	4.80 ± 1.51	4.46 ± 1.97
	Parasutterella	0.79 ± 0.22	0.74 ± 0.29

The subscripts “a” and “b” indicate that the two groups differ significantly ().