Fig. 6
From: Vitamin D and allergic airway disease shape the murine lung microbiome in a sex-specific manner
The abundance of bacterial operational taxonomic units was minimally affected by vitamin D deficiency. Female BALB/c mice (dams) were fed vitamin D-containing (+) or vitamin D-null (−) diets from 3 weeks of age and used to produce offspring. A subgroup of the vitamin D-deficient offspring was fed a vitamin D-supplemented diet from 8 weeks of age (−/+). Shown is a heat map of the of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) significantly detected in the lungs of male (M) naïve offspring. OTU counts were log-transformed; with red denoting increased frequency of a given OTU, and dark blue no occurrence (n = 9-10/treatment)