Correlation of abundance of bacterial taxa and metabolic parameters associated with obesity.

<p>Correlation between abundance of taxa identified to be contributing most to dissimilarity between diet types and metabolic parameters are represented by solid line for positive correlations and interrupted line for negative correlations. Only significant correlations, P value < 0.05, are represented. Metabolic parameters represented are: body weight gain (ΔBW), fat mass estimated by the cumulative weight of retroperitoneal and epidydimal fat, plasma leptin, insulin and triglyceride concentration, glucose tolerance estimated by the area under curve at 90 min of glucose tolerance test, and insulin sensitivity estimated by area above curve at 120 min of insulin tolerance test as shown in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0126931#pone.0126931.g002" target="_blank">Fig 2</a>.