marginally significantp = 0.07
After antibiotic treatment and prior to the fecal transplant procedure, both FB-W and FB-K mice had a significant (p = 0.037) and a marginally significant (p = 0.07) reduction in microbial species diversity, respectively, when compared to that of the treatment naïve WT mice based on Shannon anlaysis but not Chao1 analysis(Fig. 6 B and Additional file 1 : Figure S3).