Fig. 4
From: Vitamin D and allergic airway disease shape the murine lung microbiome in a sex-specific manner
The lung microbiomes of vitamin D-replete and -deficient naïve mice were similar. 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 (−/+). Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) plots depict the dissimilarity of the detected operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from the lungs, with results shown for clustering by (a) diet, (b) sex, or (c) all (M = male, F = female; n = 9-10/treatment)