Fig. 5
Microbial analysis in the pre-weaning (D22) cecum of gruel creep vs. control fed pigs. Creep includes pigs fed gruel creep feed both without (FG–) or with GOS (FG+) while control pigs were not fed creep feed. A Alpha diversity measures of Chao1 (P < 0.05), Shannon (P > 0.1), and Simpson (P = 0.09) metrics. B Beta diversity based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity matrix, P > 0.1. C Family-level taxonomy distributions. D Log2fold changes in microbial genera of creep-fed vs. control pigs, P < 0.05