High Doses of Halotolerant Gut-Indigenous Lactobacillus plantarum Reduce Cultivable Lactobacilli in Newborn Calves without Increasing Its Species Abundance

Figure 1

Body weight gain in neonatal calves during and after oral supplementation with L. plantarum strain B80. (a) Cumulative percentage of body weight gain. (b) Daily body weight gain efficiency. Data normalized to body weight at the beginning of each period. Distinct scripts (A, B) above the boxplots indicate pairwise difference (M-W, ).

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