Adult female mice were fed a liquid diet with ethanol (EF) or isocaloric maltodextrin (PF) with or without L. plantarum (106 CFU/ml) (LP). Bacterial 16S RNA extracted from colonic fecal samples was subjected to qPCR for Lactobacillus (A), L. plantarum (B), L. rhamnosus (C), L. acidophilus (D), L. casei (E) and L. gasseri (F). Values are means ± SEM (n = 6). Asterisks indicate the “EF” values that are significantly (p-value < 0.05) different from corresponding “PF” values, and the hashtags indicate the “EF+LP” values that are different from corresponding “EF” values.