Table 6. qPCR results for total bacteria, two phyla, and four genera of ruminal bacterial communities in the starter feed- and breast milk-fed groups.

Taxon	Abundance of bacteriaa		P-value
	Starter feed-fed group	Breast milk-fed group
Bacteria	30.76 ± 2.77	5.23 ± 1.25	<0.001
Bacteroidetes	16.38 ± 1.13	3.12 ± 0.77	<0.001
Firmicutes	3.90 ± 1.24	0.87 ± 0.30	0.039
Prevotella	11.53 ± 4.46	0.66 ± 0.43	0.036
Clostridium Butyricum	0.22 ± 0.20	0.0015 ± 0.00075	0.285
Bacteroides spp.	0.02 ± 0.004	0.009 ± 0.003	0.041
Selenomonas ruminantium-Mitsuokella multiacida	0.195 ± 0.052	0.0017 ± 0.00083	0.004

^aThe abundance of total bacteria is expressed as 10¹⁰ copy numbers per gram of rumen content.