Fig. 3

Box-whisker plots of the three sphingolipid metabolic pathways that distinguish between the fecal microbiome of infants with bronchiolitis and that of healthy controls. The predicted metagenome of fecal microbiome in infants with bronchiolitis had a higher abundance of the a ko00600 (q = 0.03), b ko00603 (q = 0.03), and c ko00604 (q = 0.048) pathways compared to that in healthy controls. The horizontal line represents the median; the bottom and the top of the box represent the 25th and the 75th percentiles; whiskers represent 5 and 95% percentiles