Fig. 7.

Effects of EC on HFD-induced changes in cecal microbiota. Changes in cecal microbiota assessed by clustering of samples based on diet. Principal coordinate analysis (PCA) was performed based on the weighted UniFrac distance matrix generated from sequencing fecal 16S rRNA gene in cecum samples from mice fed the corresponding diets for 15 weeks. The X-axis represents the tertiary coordinate, the Y-axis represents the secondary coordinate. Axis numbering represents the relative distance between samples based on the weighted UniFrac distance matrix.