Figure 1.
Microbial community structures in cecal digesta for comparison. (A) Scatter plot of bacterial alpha diversity in the CON, ENM, SFP, and LFP groups. Each bar represents mean ± standard deviation (n = 4). Different superscripts indicate significant differences between groups. (B) PCoA of the cecal bacterial communities in the CON, ENM, SFP, and LFP groups (n = 4). (C) Heatmap of microbial species abundance in cecal digesta. Abundance distribution of 35 dominant species (Y axis) across all samples (X axis) is displayed (n = 4). The values are normalized using the Z-score. Abbreviations: CON, basal diet; ENM, basal diet supplemented with enramycin; LFP, Basal diet supplemented with B. licheniformis–fermented products; PCoA, principal coordinate analysis; SFP, Basal diet supplemented with B. subtilis–fermented products.