Fig. 3

Overview and comparison of rabbit microbiota at the phylum level. A The phyla with relative abundance more than 0.05% were shown. The phyla with relative abundance < 0.05% are summarized as ‘Others’. B Comparison of twelve phyla with relative abundance more than 0.05% among the four groups. SSin represents the stomach and small intestinal group; Lin represents the large intestinal group; SML represents the skin, mouth and lung group; Uter represents the uterus group. Significant differences of phylum rlog-transformed abundance among the four groups were tested by the ANOVA analysis with the bonferroni correction (*, 0.01 ≤ P < 0.05; **, 0.001 ≤ P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001). C. Four significantly different phyla between the intestinal group and the non-intestinal group, including two phyla with lower relative abundance < 0.05%. Welch’s t-test implemented in STAMP software was used; the p-values were corrected with Benjamini–Hochberg FDR method