Fig. 5

Effect of OttaBac^® on α and β diversity and species taxonomy. a α-Diversity expressed by the Chao1 richness index. The color expresses belonging to the group of mice: nMS in green and MS in red. The significance is expressed by the asterisk following the code: *0.01 < p < 0.05; **0.001 < p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001. b β-diversity performed by principal coordinate analyses (PCoA) using Jaccard dissimilarity matrix index. The triangle and the circles are groups of mice subjected to probiotics or placebo respectively. The color expresses belonging to the group of mice: nMS in green and MS in red. c and d LEfSe results using nMS and MS group of mice as classes and OB and PLA as subclasses. The cladogram (c) and the LDA results (d) show all the taxonomy levels until species. The most abundant features in nMS or MS are highlighted in green and red, respectively. e and f LEfSe results using OB and PLA as classes and nMS and MS groups as subclasses. The cladogram (e) and the LDA results (f) show all the taxonomy levels until species. The most abundant features in placebo or OttaBac^® are highlighted in green and red, respectively. We utilized five mice/group