Fig. 4

Effects of SWT on the diversity and composition of intestinal microbiota in mice with fibrotic liver injury. A The Venn diagram analysis of OTUs. B Alpha diversity was evaluated based on the Chao1 (left panel) and Shannon (right panel) indices of the OTU levels. C The dissimilarities in microbial composition on OTU level was determined by PCoA. Each dot represented an individual sample. D, E LEfSe analysis was used to identify the most differentially abundant taxa of bacterial communities from phylum to genus level (LDA score ≥ 3.0)