Fig. 3

Effects of coprophagy prevention on the Alpha-diversity and Beta-diversity of cecum microorganisms in rabbits. Boxplots showed alpha-diversity based on goods’s coverage index and shannon index (A); Rarefaction curve based on chao1 of CON, SCP and CP groups (B); Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) plot of beta-diversity based on bray’s curtis (C); analysis of similarities based on jaccard of CON, SCP and CP groups (D). Each dot in the graph represents a sample, and dots of different colors indicate different groups. (CON = control, SCP = sham-coprophagy prevention, CP = coprophagy prevention; * P < 0.05; ** P < 0.01; different lowercase indicates significant differences in the same column P < 0.05)