Figure 1

Fecal bacterial taxa that exhibited significant changes after the synbiotic intake period. ASV refers to Amplicon Sequence Variant. Taxonomic lineage is provided: p, phylum; c, class; o, order; f, family; g, genus; s, species. Taxonomic names highlighted in blue were identified through manual BLASTN searches in GenBank using the corresponding read sequence. Names in square brackets indicate non-validated taxonomy. Corrections to the taxonomic names compared to those in the Greengenes database are highlighted in purple. p values were obtained from Mann–Whitney tests on CLR-transformed bacterial abundances. The numbers in the white-red heatmap indicate the median CLR-transformed abundance of the respective bacterial taxon at T0 and T1. The intensity of the red color in the heatmap corresponds to the increase in abundance.