showed a trendp = 0.0027
Both male and female mice showed a trend towards higher alpha-diversity with SCFA treatment, with male mice reaching statistical significance at the taxonomic levels of order ( p = 0.0027), class ( p = 0.0027) and phylum ( p = 0.043) and female mice reaching significance at the genus ( p = 0.049) taxonomic level ( Figures 2A,C , p -values for all taxonomic levels in Table 1 ).