Table 5.
Effect of Lactobacillus plantarum supplementation on microbial relative abundance components in the ileum of layer chicks (14 days of age)1.
| Items2 | Treatments | SEM | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | LPS | LPM/LPS | |||
| Phylum (%) | |||||
| Firmicutes | 91.02 | 93.63 | 79.66 | 2.56 | 0.053 |
| Proteobacteria | 5.58 | 5.23 | 6.60 | 1.35 | 0.920 |
| Actinobacteria | 2.97ab | 0.83b | 12.31a | 2.04 | 0.041 |
| Genus (%) | |||||
| Romboutsia | 57.68a | 55.10a | 18.98b | 5.05 | 0.001 |
| Turicibacter | 5.71 | 16.21 | 20.43 | 3.72 | 0.262 |
| Enterococcus | 15.34 | 7.63 | 14.11 | 2.22 | 0.331 |
| Escherichia-Shigella | 4.66 | 4.78 | 4.73 | 1.23 | 0.999 |
| Corynebacterium | 2.55 | 0.61 | 11.73 | 2.03 | 0.048 |
| Aerococcus | 3.25 | 1.68 | 8.38 | 1.49 | 0.161 |
| Eisenbergiella | 0.78 | 1.81 | 1.92 | 0.60 | 0.715 |
| Staphylococcus | 0.79 | 1.69 | 2.06 | 0.42 | 0.475 |
| norank_f__norank_o__RF39 | 0.82 | 1.45 | 1.70 | 0.34 | 0.567 |
| norank_f__norank_o__Clostridia_UCG-014 | 1.17 | 0.93 | 0.74 | 0.21 | 0.735 |
1Data are the mean of 7 replicates (1 chick each replicate).2LPS, Lipopolysaccharide; LPM, Lactobacillus plantarum in microencapsulation; LPM/LPS, LPM supplementation after LPS injection.a,bValues within a row with no common superscripts differ significantly (p < 0.05).