FIGURE 5.

Taxonomic differences in the distal intestinal microbiota from mucosa between control and probiotic groups according to LEfSe analysis. The analysis was carried out with the relative abundance of all mucosa samples at the genus level. Control and probiotic groups were treated as classes, and FW and SW stages as subclasses. (A) A circular cladogram is representing the significant enriched OTUs between control (red) or probiotic (green) groups. No significantly different OTUs are represented in yellow. The diameter of each dot is proportional to its effect size. (B) Relative abundance (expressed from 0 to 1) of enriched taxa according to LEfSe. When more than one OTU from the same phylogenetic clade was enriched according to LEfSe, only the relative abundance of the closest phylogenetic ancestor was plotted. (C) LDA, differentially enriched OTUs are arranged in descending order according to LDA score.