Journal: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI

Article Title: Effects of Dietary Bacillus coagulans and Tributyrin on Growth Performance, Serum Antioxidants, Intestinal Morphology, and Cecal Microbiota of Growing Yellow-Feathered Broilers

doi: 10.3390/ani13223534

Figure Lengend Snippet: Photomicrograph of the small intestine (scale bar = 500 μm). Abbreviations: CON, control group (fed a basal diet); BC, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans ; TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg tributyrin; BC × TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans and 1 g/kg tributyrin.

Article Snippet: Bacillus coagulans (live bacteria ≥ 2 × 10 8 CFU/g) were obtained from Beijing Kangyuan Yisheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China); tributyrin (purity ≥ 64%) was purchased from Harbin Jinfulai Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Harbin, China).

Techniques: Control

Journal: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI

Article Title: Effects of Dietary Bacillus coagulans and Tributyrin on Growth Performance, Serum Antioxidants, Intestinal Morphology, and Cecal Microbiota of Growing Yellow-Feathered Broilers

doi: 10.3390/ani13223534

Figure Lengend Snippet: Analysis of the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) shared among groups. Each circle in the figure indicates a group, and numbers in overlapping circles indicate the number of OTUs shared between groups. Numbers located in non-overlapping areas indicate the number of unique OTUs in each group. Abbreviations: CON, control group (fed a basal diet); BC, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans ; TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg tributyrin; BC × TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans and 1 g/kg tributyrin.

Article Snippet: Bacillus coagulans (live bacteria ≥ 2 × 10 8 CFU/g) were obtained from Beijing Kangyuan Yisheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China); tributyrin (purity ≥ 64%) was purchased from Harbin Jinfulai Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Harbin, China).

Techniques: Control

Journal: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI

Article Title: Effects of Dietary Bacillus coagulans and Tributyrin on Growth Performance, Serum Antioxidants, Intestinal Morphology, and Cecal Microbiota of Growing Yellow-Feathered Broilers

doi: 10.3390/ani13223534

Figure Lengend Snippet: Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of cecal microbiota based on weighted UniFrac distances ( n = 6). PCoA1, first principal coordinate; PCoA2, second principal coordinate. Abbreviations: CON, control group (fed a basal diet); BC, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans ; TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg tributyrin; BC × TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans and 1 g/kg tributyrin.

Article Snippet: Bacillus coagulans (live bacteria ≥ 2 × 10 8 CFU/g) were obtained from Beijing Kangyuan Yisheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China); tributyrin (purity ≥ 64%) was purchased from Harbin Jinfulai Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Harbin, China).

Techniques: Control

Journal: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI

Article Title: Effects of Dietary Bacillus coagulans and Tributyrin on Growth Performance, Serum Antioxidants, Intestinal Morphology, and Cecal Microbiota of Growing Yellow-Feathered Broilers

doi: 10.3390/ani13223534

Figure Lengend Snippet: Histogram of the abundances of microbial phyla in the cecum. Abbreviations: CON, control group (fed a basal diet); BC, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans ; TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg tributyrin; BC × TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans and 1 g/kg tributyrin.

Article Snippet: Bacillus coagulans (live bacteria ≥ 2 × 10 8 CFU/g) were obtained from Beijing Kangyuan Yisheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China); tributyrin (purity ≥ 64%) was purchased from Harbin Jinfulai Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Harbin, China).

Techniques: Control

Journal: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI

Article Title: Effects of Dietary Bacillus coagulans and Tributyrin on Growth Performance, Serum Antioxidants, Intestinal Morphology, and Cecal Microbiota of Growing Yellow-Feathered Broilers

doi: 10.3390/ani13223534

Figure Lengend Snippet: A histogram of the relative abundances of microbial genera in the cecum. Abbreviations: CON, control group (fed a basal diet); BC, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans ; TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg tributyrin; BC × TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans and 1 g/kg tributyrin.

Article Snippet: Bacillus coagulans (live bacteria ≥ 2 × 10 8 CFU/g) were obtained from Beijing Kangyuan Yisheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China); tributyrin (purity ≥ 64%) was purchased from Harbin Jinfulai Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Harbin, China).

Techniques: Control

Journal: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI

Article Title: Effects of Dietary Bacillus coagulans and Tributyrin on Growth Performance, Serum Antioxidants, Intestinal Morphology, and Cecal Microbiota of Growing Yellow-Feathered Broilers

doi: 10.3390/ani13223534

Figure Lengend Snippet: Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe) was used to identify the most differentially abundant taxa in the cecal microbiota of the CON, BC, TB, and BC × TB groups. ( a ) A cladogram generated from LEfSe analysis. Red circles indicate taxa that were more abundant in the CON group, green circles indicate taxa that were more abundant in the BC group, blue circles indicate taxa that were more abundant in the TB group, purple circles indicate taxa that were more abundant in the BC × TB group, and yellow indicates taxa that were not differentially abundant. The diameters of the circles are proportional to each taxon’s abundance. ( b ) A histogram of the LDA scores computed for differentially abundant taxa in the BC group (green bars), TB group (blue bars), BC × TB group (purple bars), and CON group (red bars). Species displaying significant differences in abundance with an LDA score greater than 2.0 are shown. The length of the histogram indicates the LDA score, which can be interpreted as the effect size of each differentially abundant taxon. Abbreviations: CON, control group (fed a basal diet); BC, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans ; TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg tributyrin; BC × TB, the group fed a basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg Bacillus coagulans and 1 g/kg tributyrin.

Article Snippet: Bacillus coagulans (live bacteria ≥ 2 × 10 8 CFU/g) were obtained from Beijing Kangyuan Yisheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China); tributyrin (purity ≥ 64%) was purchased from Harbin Jinfulai Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Harbin, China).

Techniques: Generated, Control