Modulation of the human gut microbiota by dietary fibres occurs at the species level

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Acknowledgements We would like to thank Donna Henderson for carrying out GC analysis, and Paul Scott, Iraad Bronner and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s core sequencing team for carrying out the Illumina MiSeq sequencing of 16S rRNA genes. We are grateful to Grietje Holtrop (BioSS) for advice on statistical analysis. Freda Farquharson kindly contributed her expertise with training on qPCR. The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health receives financial support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Sciences and Analytical Services (RESAS) and this work was partly funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC-CASE) and Cargill, Inc. AWW, JP and 16S rRNA gene sequencing costs were funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant number 098051).Peer reviewe