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Table 3.

Effects of different straw particle sizes on rumen bacterial community at phylum level (%).

Units	Particle size			SEM	p-value
	1 mm	2 mm	4 mm
Bacteroidetes	59.87^b	63.48^a	64.96^a	1.13	0.02
Firmicutes	30.91	30.59	29.13	1.24	0.94
Proteobacteria	1.44^a	0.81^c	1.07^b	0.08	<0.01
Spirochaetae	3.51	2.27	2.09	0.41	0.06
Tenericutes	0.60^a	0.47^ab	0.38^b	0.05	0.03
Cyanobacteria	0.25^a	0.16^b	0.14^b	0.02	<0.01
TM7	0.41^a	0.29^b	0.31^b	0.02	<0.01
WPS-2	0.25^a	0.15^b	0.32^a	0.03	<0.01
Others	2.76	1.78	1.6	0.14	0.07

SEM, standard error of the mean.

^a−cMeans within a row for doses that do not have a common superscript differ (p <0.05).