Fig. 4

Effects of EM on jejunal microbiota diversity (A) and microbiota composition at genus level (B) of broilers on 42 d. (C) Comparison of samples between multiple groups based on PLS-DA. (D) Differential bacteria at genus level by Kruskal–Wallis H test. Effects of EM on linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe) to detect the most significantly abundant jejunal microbiota of broilers on 42 d. (E) LDA score generated for differentially abundant microbiota (LDA > 2, P < 0.05). Significant defference was recorded by 0.01 < P ≤ 0.05^*, 0.001 < P ≤ 0.01^**, P ≤ 0.001^***