| BAT | brown adipose tissue |
| CHOL | total cholesterol |
| eWAT | epididymal white adipose tissue |
| FML | flavonoids from mulberry leaves |
| HDL | high density lipoprotein |
| iWAT | inguinal white adipose tissues |
| LDL | low density lipoprotein |
| LEfSe | linear discriminant analysis effect size |
| MTCon | microbiota-depleted mice that were transplanted with donor microbiota from mice fed with control diets |
| MTHFD | microbiota-depleted mice that were transplanted with donor microbiota from mice fed with HFD |
| MTFML | microbiota-depleted mice that were transplanted with donor microbiota from mice treated with FML |
| NMDS | nonmetric multidimensional scaling plot |
| SCFAs | short-chain fatty acids |
| TG | triacylglycerol |
| UCP1 | uncoupling protein 1 |