Fig. 7
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 for mice fed the vitamin D+ diet only. (M = male, F = female; n = 9–10/treatment)