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Fig. 6

From: Delayed access to feed early post-hatch affects the development and maturation of gastrointestinal tract microbiota in broiler chickens

Fig. 6

Effect of delay in feed access for the first 48 h post-hatch on beta diversity of cecal luminal bacterial population from day 1 (24 h) through day 14 (336 h) post-hatch using the Principal Coordinate analysis (PCoA) based on the Unweighted UniFrac distances between groups. Panel (a) shown PCoA for all samples while (b-g) panels depict differences between specific treatment groups at (b) day (d) 1, (c) d 2; (d) d 3, (e) d 4, (f) d 6 and (g) d 8 post-hatch. F – chicks feed immediately post-hatch; NF – chicks without access to feed for the first 48 h post-hatch

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