Fig. 5
From: Vitamin D and allergic airway disease shape the murine lung microbiome in a sex-specific manner
Dietary vitamin D did not affect the diversity of the lung microbiome. Female BALB/c mice (dams) were fed vitamin D-containing (+) or vitamin D-null (−) diets from 3 weeks of age and used to produce male (M) and female (F) offspring. A subgroup of the vitamin D-deficient offspring was fed a vitamin D-supplemented diet from 8 weeks of age (−/+). Shown are the number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) observed at a sequencing depth of 1,200 per animal, with no significant effect of sex or vitamin D. Data is shown with the median as a blue line, the first or third quartiles as the upper and lower boxes (respectively) and the upper and lower whiskers show the 1.5 times of the interquartile distance and minimum and maximum data (n = 9–10/treatment, with an outlier denoted as a circle)