Table 5.

Effects of starter feeding on average relative abundance of genus level (% of total sequences) in colon mucosa, ranked by alphabetical order of first letter of phylum, family, and genus name.

Phylum	Family	Genus	Abundance (%)		P-value
			M	M+S
Actinobacteria	Bifidobacteriaceae	Bifidobacterium	0.31±0.17	0.95±0.70	0.002
Bacteroidetes	BS11_gut_group	Unclassified BS11_gut_group	1.73±1.64	0.16±0.25	0.027
	Porphyromonadaceae	Parabacteroides	0.20±0.09	1.70±1.39	0.002
		Barnesiella	0.65±0.80	0.18±0.26	0.046
	Prevotellaceae	Prevotella	0.25±0.25	2.41±3.08	0.009
	Rikenellaceae	dgA-11_gut_group	0.57±0.39	0.01±0.02	0.001
		RC9_gut_group	5.01±1.59	2.32±3.21	0.027
	S24-7	Unclassified S24-7	0.60±0.65	15.07±14.06	0.002
	Unclassified Bacteroidales	Phocaeicola	3.40±3.15	0.33±0.39	0.036
Cyanobacteria	Unclassified Gastranaerophilales	Unclassified Gastranaerophilales	0.44±0.34	0.20±0.15	0.036
Firmicutes	Family_XIII	Unclassified Family_XIII	0.80±0.25	0.50±0.33	0.016
	Lachnospiraceae	Blautia	3.92±1.63	1.31±0.60	0.002
		Butyrivibrio	0.35±0.04	0.23±0.07	0.006
		Dorea	0.33±0.11	0.21±0.05	0.012
		Pseudobutyrivibrio	0.61±0.50	0.22±0.29	0.009
	Lactobacillaceae	Lactobacillus	0.71±0.48	0.05±0.05	0.001
	Oscillospiraceae	Oscillibacter	1.70±0.90	3.28±1.74	0.046
	Ruminococcaceae	Unclassified Ruminococcaceae	21.76±2.63	14.65±4.90	0.006
	Unclassified Firmicutes	Unclassified Firmicutes	0.77±0.31	0.19±0.23	0.002
	Veillonellaceae	Phascolarctobacterium	1.91±0.64	0.75±0.63	0.009
Proteobacteria	Campylobacteraceae	Campylobacter	0.93±0.46	0.32±0.26	0.016
	Succinivibrionaceae	Ruminobacter	0.01±0.00	1.08±2.43	0.002
		Succinivibrio	0.04±0.04	0.61±0.60	0.006

Only results obtained for the predominant bacterial taxa (Top 50 taxa) that were significantly affected by starter feeding (P < 0.05) are presented. Values shown are means ± SD, n = 8.