Figure 8

Microbial shifts between litters and taxa driving the shifts. A The community shifts between L2 and L5 at week 3 was mainly driven by increase in abundance of the indicator species, Ruminococcus_2. L0 included uninoculated control piglets. Litters 1–5 included all M. hyopneumoniae experimentally inoculated piglets. B Similarly, Ruminococcaceae_UCG_002 drove the shift between L2 and L3. The inserted ordiellipse plots indicate significant separation between the L2 (high LS) and L5 (low LS) in A, and separation between L2 and L3 (low LS) in B.