Table 4. Phylum-level taxonomic composition of bacterial communities in the ruminal contents between the starter feed- and breast milk-fed groups.

Phylum	% of sequences in starter feed-fed group	% of sequences in breast milk-fed group	P-value
Actinobacteria	0.132 ± 0.072	0.335 ± 0.226	0.413
Bacteroidetes	66.007 ± 4.187	58.471 ± 1.385	0.118
Fibrobacteres	0.084 ± 0.050	0.769 ± 0.279	0.036
Firmicutes	19.367 ± 3.551	14.99 ± 1.484	0.283
Lentisphaerae	0.119 ± 0.088	3.265 ± 0.752	0.002
Proteobacteria	2.593 ± 1.231	6.016 ± 1.441	0.101
Spirochaetes	4.690 ± 1.202	9.583 ± 4.780	0.344
Synergistetes	1.200 ± 0.450	1.070 ± 0.529	0.862
Tenericutes	0.677 ± 0.004	1.186 ± 0.335	0.363
Verrucomicrobia	0.149 ± 0.146	7.481 ± 2.762	0.024
Unclassified	0	0.003 ± 0.002	0.154
Others (<0.5%)	0.088 ± 0.067	1.715 ± 0.290	<0.001