. 2023 Dec 21;10:1272835. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1272835

Table 5.

Rumen protozoal diversity and taxa abundances in 26-week-old goats measured at 21 days after a shift from a high-concentrate to a full forage diet (oats hay).

Treatments ¹	CTL	AUT	RFF	RFC	SED	p-value
Concentration, log10 copy/mg DM	ND	8.79	8.38	9.02	0.430	0.348
Diversity
Richness, OTUs	ND	20.5^b	31.3^a	32.9^a	1.085	<0.001
Shannon	ND	1.68^b	2.24^a	2.28^a	0.062	<0.001
Simpson	ND	0.76^b	0.86^a	0.86^a	0.014	<0.001
Abundance, %
f_Ophyoscolecidae	ND	97.5^a	77.5^b	81.6^b	3.087	<0.001
sf_Entodiniinae; g_Entodinium	ND	96.2^a	74.9^b	79.1^b	3.312	<0.001
sf_Diplodiniinae	ND	1.33	2.34	2.36	0.423	0.138
g_Enoploplastron_triloricatum	ND	0.00^b	0.49^a	0.32^a	0.114	0.003
g_Polyplastron	ND	1.32	1.73	1.57	0.397	0.600
g_Diplodinium	ND	0.01	0.12	0.47	0.171	0.073
sf_Ophryoscolecinae	ND	0.00^b	0.23^a	0.14^a	0.053	0.003
s_Ophryoscolex_sp_LDK-2011	ND	0.00^b	0.22^a	0.14^a	0.052	0.003
f_Isotrichidae	ND	1.14^b	21.85^a	16.6^a	3.099	<0.001
g_Dasytricha	ND	0.92^b	12.15^a	12.8^ab	2.063	0.001
g_Isotricha	ND	0.23^b	9.70^a	3.84^a	2.372	<0.001
s_Isotricha_prostoma	ND	0.15^b	6.00^a	1.66^a	1.484	<0.001
s_Isotricha_intestinalis	ND	0.06^b	2.63^a	1.15^a	0.585	<0.001

During the first 10 weeks of age, goats (N = 36) received a daily and oral inoculation with autoclaved rumen fluid (AUT), rumen fluid from adult animals fed forage (RFF), or fed concentrate diets (RFC) or without inoculation (CTL). Means within a raw with different superscript differ (p < 0.05).