Fig. 4

Abundance of gut microbiota at genus level affected by probiotic supplementation at multiple sampling periods. a). Elusimicrobium. b). Megasphaera. c). Parasutterella. d). Paraprevotella. e). Succinatimonas. f). Sphaerochaeta. g). Muribaculaceae_ge. h). Rikenella. In each panel of Fig. 4, the letters “D” and “W” refer to day and week post-hatch, while the letters “C” and “P” refer to control and probiotic supplemented flocks, respectively. Asterisks (*, ** and ***) show P values at 0.01, 0.001 and 0.0001, respectively