Table 4.

Gene expression comparison between the rumen epithelium of L- and H- RFI animals by qPCR

Gene	L-RFI ∆Ct (n = 30)	H-RFI ∆Ct (n = 27)	P-value
TPI1	−3.23 ± 0.57	−2.99 ± 0.38	0.07
TECR	−2.36 ± 0.57	−2.00 ± 0.51	0.01*
COX8A	−7.85 ± 1.30	−6.57 ± 1.89	0.004*
SLC25A39	−3.67 ± 0.51	−0.24 ± 0.60	3.8E-30*
PKM2	−6.64 ± 0.58	−3.78 ± 0.53	4.4E-26*

Data are Mean ± SD

*p-value <0.05