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Table 6.

Relative abundance (%) of methanogenic taxa in both FLP and CAP of freshly isolated ruminal ciliate cells as quantified using qPCR^*.

	CAP of individual ruminal ciliate genera									P-value
Taxa	*Dasytricha*	*Diplodinium*	*Diploplastron*	*Entodinium*	*Epidinium*	*Isotricha*	*Ophryoscolex*	*Polyplastron*	FLP	Genera	CAP vs. FLP
Total methanogens	0.153^b	0.164^b	0.135^b	0.160^b	0.251^ab	0.416^ab	0.212^b	0.166^b	0.891^a	0.359	<0.001
Methanobrevibacter	0.104	0.112	0.071	0.052	0.166	0.104	0.160	0.041	0.260	0.300	<0.001
Thermoplasmata	0.035	0.103	0.014	0.013	0.019	0.193	0.110	0.055	0.335	0.520	<0.001
M. stadtmanae^#	0.022	<0.001	<0.001	0.100	0.054	<0.001	<0.001	0.067	0.018	0.229	0.666

Data are shown as means of relative abundance of individual taxa relative to total prokaryotes. n = 9 for CAP of each ciliate genus and n = 5 for FLP.

Methanosphaera stadtmanae.

Different superscripts within a row indicate significant differences (P < 0.05).