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Caption : figure s1. beta diversity of the gut microbiome at the genus level. pcoa plots showed the microbial communities based on weighted unifrac distance across groups. box plots on the axes represented the distribution of values for pc1 and pc2. differences in beta diversity between groups were assessed using the adonis test and the results indicated no significant differences among the three groups at both baseline (p = 0.077) and endpoint (p = 0.139).