Figure 3.

Differential enrichment of the ileal bacteria between chickens with mild and severe NE. After induction of NE, the ileal digesta of broilers were collected and subjected to 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Intestinal lesions of individual animals were scored. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe) analysis was performed to identify differentially abundant bacteria at the phylum (A), order (B), family (C), genus (D), and ASV levels (E) between score-1 mild and score-6 severe NE chickens with cut-offs p<0.05 and LDA score>2.0. (F) Phylogenetic relationships of differentially enriched bacteria. Differentially enriched bacterial taxa were represented by rings with the phylum shown in the outermost ring and the species in the innermost ring.