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. 2024 Jun 22;103(9):103998. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2024.103998

Table 7.

Effects of MLE on relative abundances of cecal microflora at phylum and genus levels of laying hens.

Items	Control group	HELP groups with MLE levels (%)					SEM	P-value
Items	Control group	0.00	0.04	0.40	0.80	1.20	SEM	P-value
Phylum level
Firmicutes	55.49^c	49.74^a	50.25^a	52.25^b	53.62^b	50.63^a	0.74	<0.001
Bacteroidota	35.98	36.94	37.20	36.57	37.07	39.05	0.78	0.151
Desulfobacterota	3.92^c	5.78^d	4.66^c	4.52^c	2.59^b	1.57^a	0.33	<0.001
Actinobacteriota	2.76	2.11	2.42	2.29	2.51	2.67	0.23	0.742
Campylobacterota	0.65	0.61	0.94	1.05	0.99	0.87	0.17	0.851
Genus level
Faecalibacterium	7.64^ab	3.73^a	6.21^a	7.58^ab	11.29^bc	12.67^c	0.79	<0.001
Rikenellaceae_RC9_gut_
Group	9.49^a	12.48^b	12.69^b	8.58^a	8.63^a	8.00^a	0.45	<0.001
Bacteroides	10.03	9.76	9.80	10.50	10.31	9.07	0.27	0.720
Phascolarctobacterium	8.96	7.08	7.84	9.53	7.93	7.86	0.43	0.709
Prevotellaceae_UCG_001	4.16	3.84	3.79	4.76	4.83	4.89	0.16	0.102

^a,b,c

Different letters in each row indicate a significant difference (P < 0.05).