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

Table 6.

Rumen anaerobic fungal 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	6.62	7.20	7.18	7.33	0.352	0.234
Diversity
Richness, OTUs	52.5^a	36.6^c	43.9^bc	49.2^ab	3.910	0.001
Shannon	2.47^a	2.02^b	2.48^a	2.55^a	0.143	0.002
Simpson	0.84^a	0.77^b	0.87^a	0.86^a	0.036	0.041
Abundance, %
g_Anaeromyces	0.77	0.91	0.75	0.00	0.292	0.096
g_Caecomyces	25.3^ab	30.9^a	20.8^ab	6.82^b	4.903	0.047
g_Neocallimastix	16.6^b	6.23^c	25.2^ab	33.6^a	3.207	<0.001
Unclassified	57.4	61.9	53.3	59.6	3.763	0.820

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).