Microbiota composition
The impact of both diets on microbiota composition and function was assessed by whole genome sequencing. Neither microbial α- (Chao 1, Simpson, Shannon) nor β-diversity was impacted by the intervention (data not shown). However, general linear mixed models with Storey’s When adjusting for co-variates, results did not change, suggesting that effect of diet observed in these seven species of interest is invariant to age, gender, and BMI. Violin boxplots of the relative abundance of microbial species that differed between intervention groups are shown in Fig. 