Table 1.
Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes Real-Time PCR System.
Figure 1.
Firmicutes system sensitivity at genus taxonomic level.
Scores in parentheses indicate the number of sequences matching the system out of the total sequence number of a given genus.
Figure 2.
Bacteroidetes system sensitivity at genus taxonomic level.
Scores in parentheses indicate the number of sequences matching the system out of the total sequence number of a given genus.
Table 2.
Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Lactobacillus and M. smithii Quantifications.
Figure 3.
The Bacteroidetes quantification.
Box and whisker: 10–90 percentiles. Outliers are plotted as a black bubble, means are plotted as a plus, and medians are the black lines in the boxes. P value <0.05 is represented as * and P value <0.01 is represented as ** on the graph.
Figure 4.
Distribution of high Lactobacillus concentrations.
The number of individuals having a high Lactobacillus concentration was 1 out of 20, 8 out of 20, and 0 out of 9 for the lean, obese, and anorexic groups, respectively.
Figure 5.
Quantification of the archaeon M. smithii species.
Values are means±SD. P value <0.05 is represented as * and P value > 0.05 is indicated by “ns” for not significant.
Table 3.
Reproducibility Assay.