Effects of Tea Treatments against High-Fat Diet-Induced Disorder by Regulating Lipid Metabolism and the Gut Microbiota

Figure 4

Tea treatments modify the structure of the cecal microbiota in high-fat diet mice: (a) OTU number; (b) Shannon index (at OTU level); (c) Simpson index (at OTU level); (d) taxa abundance cluster analysis at the phylum level. (e) Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) on Bray-Curtis distance matrix. (a–c) Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s multiple comparison test. per group. #, ##, compared with the NFD group; , , compared with the HFD group.

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