Table 7.

Relative abundance of phylum level in cecum dominant microorganisms %.

Items	CON	LLP	MLP	HLP	p-value
Bacteroidetes	48.19 ± 1.46	44.37 ± 1.47	45.51 ± 2.33	45.91 ± 1.22	0.356
Fimicutes	33.51 ± 2.07	34.55 ± 0.46	34.19 ± 1.58	37.34 ± 1.58	0.289
Spirochaetota	4.20 ± 1.68a	1.15 ± 0.11b	1.84 ± 0.28b	0.98 ± 0.0.26b	0.004
Desulfobacterota	2.51 ± 0.33	2.83 ± 0.58	2.35 ± 0.21	2.36 ± 0.39	0.632
Proteobacteria	1.65 ± 0.13b	2.20 ± 0.41ab	2.66 ± 0.41a	1.74 ± 0.17b	0.037

CON, control, basal diet; LLP, basal diet + 10⁶ CFU/kg L. paracasei LK01; MLP, basal diet + 10⁷ CFU/kg L. paracasei LK01; HLP, basal diet + 10⁸ CFU/kg L. paracasei LK01. Different letters in the same row indicate significant differences (p < 0.05). Results are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). n = 4.