highly significantp = 0.001
Further Unweighted_unifrac Adonis analysis indicated there was a highly significant independent distribution of gut microbiota between the P group and N group ( p = 0.001) ( Figure 2B ). 3.3 Functional prediction of gut microbiota 3.3.1 Functional prediction in gut microbiota based on MetaCyc metabolic pathway As shown in Figure 3 , the MetaCyc database was used to predict the primary metabolic functions of the gut microbiota in groups N and P.