Changes in gut microbiota composition and diversity associated with post-cholecystectomy diarrhea

Figure 2 Comparison of gut microbiota structure and abundance between the post-cholecystectomy diarrhea and post-cholecystectomy non-diarrhea groups. A: Differences between and within post-cholecystectomy diarrhea (PCD) and post-cholecystectomy non-diarrhea (PCND) groups were assessed by one-way analysis of similarities and nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis of the gut microbiota based on the weighted UniFrac metric; B: Comparison of the relative abundance at the phylum level between the PCD and PCND groups; C: Linear discriminant analysis effect size analysis showing the taxa with the greatest differences in abundance between the PCD and PCND groups. Green bars: PCD group-enriched taxa; yellow bars: PCND group-enriched taxa. The brightness of each dot is proportional to the effect size; D: Box plots showing the relative abundance of the top 20 microbial taxa with differential abundance. PCD: Post-cholecystectomy diarrhea; PCND: Post-cholecystectomy non-diarrhea; LDA: Linear discriminant analysis.