Oral Supplements of Combined Bacillus licheniformis Zhengchangsheng® and Xylooligosaccharides Improve High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Modulate the Gut Microbiota in Rats

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Evaluation of Illumina HiSeq sequencing data showing that BL and XOS could modulate the overall structure of gut microbiota in HFD-fed rats. (a) Venn diagram of shared and independent bacterial OTUs in different experimental groups (); (b) comparison of the observed species of different groups; (c) comparison of the Shannon index of different groups; (d) comparison of the Chao1 index of different groups; (e) principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) based on weighted UniFrac distances among different samples. PC1 and PC2 account for 70.78% of the variation; (f) multivariate analysis of variance from PCoA matrix scores using the UPGMA method based on weighted UniFrac distances. ; ; .

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