Figure 1.
The impact of cellulose on the diversification of the intestinal microbiota. The diversity of the intestinal microbiota of eight and twelve-week-old B6 mice was analyzed by 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis. (a) Diversity shown as multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) plot based on generalized UniFrac dissimilarities (n = 3). (b) Alpha diversity shown as richness and Shannon diversity and (c) the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio (n = 3). Statistical analysis: (a) non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance (Rhea), (b, c) one-way ANOVA. Data are shown as individual mice and means and are representative of two independent experiments