Figure 2.
Effects of β-glucan on the composition of gut microbiota in dairy calves. (A) Box plot outlining the α-diversity of gut microbiota between the control and β-glucan groups as per the Shannon or Chao 1 index. (B) Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis of gut microbiota between the control and β-glucan groups based on the permutational multivariate analysis of variance. (C) Area plot indicates the relative abundance of gut microbiota at phylum level. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01.
