Figure 4.
Inulin modulates gut microbiota and promotes Bifidobacterium growth. Feces from C57BL/6 mice fed with a control (n=10 mice) or an inulin-enriched diet (7.2% in drinking water) (n=11 mice) for 15 days were collected and analysed by 16S rDNA sequencing. (A) Relative abundance of bacterial phyla (B) Bray-Curtis analysis of β-diversity, (C) cladogram representation of Linear discriminant analysis Effect Size (LEfSe) analysis, and (D) relative abundance of Bifidobacterium genus. The graph shows the mean ± SEM. ****p < 0.00001 by by Mann-Whitney test.