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Fig. 2 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 2

From: Dynamic effects of black soldier fly larvae meal on the cecal bacterial microbiota and prevalence of selected antimicrobial resistant determinants in broiler chickens

Fig. 2

Alpha diversity metrics of the cecal bacterial community recovered from 14- (A), 28- (B), and 35-day-old (C) broiler chickens fed varied amounts of BSFLM and a conventional soybean-based diet with or without BMD. The box-and-whisker plots show the first and third quartile (bottom and top lines of the box) and the median (horizontal middle line) values of the indicated diversity metrics. Each broiler chicken cecal sample is represented by a solid black dot. Statistical significance of between-group differences were detected using the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test followed by post-hoc pairwise Dunn test with Bonferroni correction and are indicated with an asterisk as follows: * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001; **** p < 0.0001. BMD, bacitracin methylene disalicylate; BSFLM, black soldier fly larvae meal; %, percentage of soybean meal replaced with black soldier fly larvae meal (BSFLM)

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Animal Microbiome

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