Table 3. Effect of dietary treatments on the genera (as a percentage of the total sequences) of the ruminal bacterial community.
| Experimental diet1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | CON | EML | SMFP | SEM2 | p value |
| Prevotella | 13.34 | 12.26 | 15.87 | 1.92 | 0.4280 |
| Ruminococcus | 2.52 | 2.30 | 2.72 | 0.17 | 0.2639 |
| Butyrivibrio | 2.19 | 2.35 | 2.61 | 0.23 | 0.4433 |
| Succiniclasticum | 2.70 | 1.93 | 2.15 | 0.21 | 0.0680 |
| Fibrobacter | 1.84a,b | 1.33b | 2.20a | 0.20 | 0.0431 |
| YRC22 | 1.59 | 1.28 | 2.05 | 0.20 | 0.0628 |
| Treponema | 1.55a | 1.08b | 1.61a | 0.13 | 0.0388 |
| CF231 | 1.17 | 1.40 | 1.34 | 0.09 | 0.2503 |
| Coprococcus | 1.15 | 0.94 | 1.33 | 0.10 | 0.0612 |
| Clostridium | 0.81 | 0.74 | 0.90 | 0.10 | 0.5492 |
| Anaerovibrio | 0.84 | 0.51 | 0.75 | 0.15 | 0.3103 |
| Acetobacter | 0.65 | 0.05 | 0.12 | 0.20 | 0.1257 |
| Others | 4.10 | 3.88 | 3.72 | 0.16 | 0.2733 |
| Unknown | 63.97 | 68.62 | 61.37 | 2.23 | 0.1196 |
1CON: control group (n = 4); EML: ensiled mulberry leaves group (n = 4); SMFP: sun-dried mulberry fruit pomace group (n = 4). Relative sequence abundance (%).
2SEM: standard error of the mean.
Different letters in a row represent significant differences (p < 0.05).