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. 2018 Mar 21;8:4940. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22565-6

Table 2.

Fold changes in the abundance of selected cecal bacterial groups determined by qPCR.

Bacterium Fold change (95% confidence interval, n = 6) P-value
BDa BG
Butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA transferase 1 1.19 (0.55–2.58) 0.6162
Colostridial cluster IV 1 1.06 (0.47–2.36) 0.8706
Colostridial cluster XIVa 1 1.38 (0.84–2.25) 0.1684
Bifidobacterium (genus) 1 2.84 (1.58–5.10) 0.0026

aBD: chickens on a basal diet. BG: chickens fed BD diet supplemented with butyrate glycerides.