Table S4.

Statistical analysis of the linear fit correlation between data points using primers targeting bifidobacterial 16S rRNA and GroEL genes

Statistics metrics	Bifidobacterium species
	B. dentium	B. catenulatum	B. lactis	B. breve
Number of points	96	80	80	35
Degrees of freedom	94	78	78	33
Residual sum of squares	72.63797	133.2405	21286.78539	44.87943
Pearson's r	0.15665	0.4362	0.13124	0.36854
Adjusted R2	0.01416	0.17989	0.00462	0.10964