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From: Temporal dynamics in the composition of metabolically active bacteria and fungi in the ileo-cecal lymph nodes of suckling and newly weaned piglets

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Species richness and alpha-diversity of bacterial (blue) and fungal (orange) communities in ileo-cecal lymph nodes. Age-related differences for (A) Observed amplicon sequence variant (ASV) index, (B) Shannon index, and (C) Simpson index in suckling and newly weaned piglets. One piglet group [sow milk group; n = 10 per day of life (DoL)] drank only sow milk during the suckling phase, the other piglet group [creep feed group; n = 10 per DoL] received additional creep feed from DoL10 until weaning which took place on DoL28. No creep feed effects and interactive effects of DoL and creep feed on diversity indices (p > 0.1).

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