Gut microbiota change with consumption of nopal.

<p>A) PCoA of the unweighted UniFrac distances of microbial 16S rRNA sequences, B) Taxonomic richness as measured by number of species observed, C) LEfSe-derived phylogenetic tree depicting nodes within the bacterial taxonomic hierarchy that are significantly enriched in cecal samples from HF (red) and HF + nopal (green) rats. Significant phyla are labeled with the genera in parentheses. LEfSe was used with default parameters. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (n = 5 per group). Values are significantly different * P < 0.05.