Fig. 2

Microbial communities of recipient mice show distinct patterns of colonization. A Row-normalized heatmap of the top 25 ASVs by relative abundance for all four IG donor groups in fecal samples at 8 weeks of age. n = 5/group. B NMDS plot of weighted UniFrac distances of IG and PW fecal samples at 8 weeks of age by donor colonization. n = 5–12/group. C NMDS plot of weighted UniFrac distances of IG versus PW fecal samples at 8 weeks of age by individual donor. n = 5–11 mice/group with p value calculated by PERMANOVA. D Relative abundances of ASV1 Escherichia-Shigella coli and ASV 8 Bifidobacterium breve for all four IG and PW donor-colonized groups at 8 weeks of age. n = 5–12/group, * p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, **** p ≤ 0.0001 for comparisons between IG and PW samples within each donor by Two-Way ANOVA with Šídák’s multiple comparisons test