Fig. 5

Addition of P. pentosaceus YC altered the composition of gut microbiota. A The relative abandance of Pediococcus; B Chao1 index. C Shannon index; D Faith_pd index; E PCoA analysis; F LEfSe analysis; G Circos analysis in the level of phylum; H Circos analysis in the level of genus (n = 5). Data are represented as mean ± SEM. Significant difference of the relative abandance of Pediococcus compared with GOS group (ANOVA with Tukey’s test; ^*P < 0.05) and significant difference of Faith_pd (Kruskal-Wallis test; ^*P < 0.05). CON, control diet; GOS, gossypol diet; GP, gossypol diet supplemented with P. pentosaceus YC; PCoA, principal coordinate analysis; LDA, laser diffraction analysis