Gut Microbiota Composition and Structure of the Ob/Ob and Db/Db Mice
Table 1
Relative abundance in the percentage of the major OTUs at the phyla level in each fecal sample from ob/ob mice.
Taxa
Ob/ob 8 weeks
Ob/ob 12 weeks
Ob/ob 18 weeks
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Acidobacteria
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.004
0.000
0.000
Actinobacteria
0.242
0.771
0.579
0.064
0.034
0.057
0.256
0.564
0.129
Bacteroidetes
37.284
25.747
35.628
49.829
35.351
48.849
31.891
41.835
47.063
Cyanobacteria
0.316
0.221
0.247
0.658
0.140
0.083
0.366
0.267
1.194
Deferribacteres
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
Firmicutes
50.013
68.955
57.492
47.609
61.484
48.953
51.254
47.489
42.448
Gemmatimonadetes
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.001
0.000
0.000
0.005
0.000
0.000
Lentisphaerae
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
Proteobacteria
0.412
0.381
0.488
0.520
0.247
0.281
10.473
7.739
7.142
Tenericutes
9.463
2.679
4.369
0.472
1.776
0.714
5.650
0.791
0.157
Verrucomicrobia
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.062
0.000
0.000
0.077
0.000
0.000
Others
2.269
1.247
1.196
0.785
0.967
1.062
0.024
1.314
1.867
Note: “ob/ob 8 weeks” indicates the group of ob/ob mice at 8 weeks of age; “ob/ob 12 weeks” indicates the group of ob/ob mice at 12 weeks of age; “ob/ob 18 weeks” indicates the group of ob/ob mice at 18 weeks of age.
