Table 3.

Phylum level composition (% of sequences) of ileal bacterial community at different ages in grazing kids.

Phylum	Age (d)					SEM	P-value
	0	7	28	42	70		L	Q
Actinobacteria	3.07	0.30	0.17	0.30	0.19	1.041	0.194	0.267
Bacteroidetes	0.39	6.29	11.63	5.70	11.83	3.289	0.075	0.580
Cyanobacteria	0.00	0.01	12.67	14.22	17.34	5.327	0.018	0.372
Fibrobacteres	0.00	0.01	0.63	0.71	0.83	0.357	0.076	0.478
Firmicutes	69.06	77.50	65.66	51.41	44.46	13.673	0.112	0.943
Fusobacteria	0.00	5.47	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.857	0.293	0.823
Proteobacteria	23.89	5.43	1.38	4.23	3.43	4.505	0.036	0.052
TM7	0.01	0.20	3.47	16.71	19.18	5.359	0.010	0.916
Tenericutes	0.00	0.03	2.50	5.63	1.41	1.036	0.069	0.007
Verrucomicrobia	0.00	3.86	0.01	0.03	0.01	1.300	0.295	0.829
Unclassified	0.57	0.53	0.18	0.04	0.14	0.257	0.172	0.355
Others (<0.5%)	0.01	0.37	1.70	1.02	1.18	0.424	0.074	0.100