Fig. 1.

Microbiota composition in ileal digesta samples from pigs fed starter diet and assay diets. a Multidimensional scaling plot based on Bray Curtis similarity matrix of 16S rDNA sequence data from ileal digesta. b Abundance plot of most important bacterial families in overall microbiota structure of ileal digesta. Phyla: Firmicutes (Fi), Bacteroidetes (Ba), Proteobacteria (Pr)