Fig. 3

Bacterial species differences of fecal samples collected from cats fed the experimental diets. A A volcano plot showing differential abundance of 259 bacterial species between diets. Each dot is a bacterial species and dots are colored by phylum. Positive values in x-axis represent species that increased in abundance in the FPPB and/or iFPPB diets relative to ERS and negative values in the x-axis represent species that decreased in abundance in these diets relative to the ERS diet. The horizontal dotted line represents significance threshold of FDR adjusted P-value < 0.01 obtained from DESeq2 and the two horizontal lines differentiate the species with log2 fold change in abundance. Species with FDR adjusted P values < 0.01 and absolute log2 fold change > 2 were considered statistically significant. B Heatmap showing differences in relative abundance of differentially abundant bacterial species between the diet groups