. 2018 Jan 27;96(1):293–305. doi: 10.1093/jas/skx032

Table 7.

The relative abundance of ruminal microbes in Tibetan sheep supplemented with urea-molasses lick block or concentrate in cold season.

Item	Treatments^a			SEM	P-value
Item	CON	BS	CS	SEM	P-value
Rumen fungi	0.0301^b	0.0257^b	0.0529^a	0.0045	<0.0001
Protozoa	0.7781^c	1.7596^a	1.4387^b	0.1512	0.001
Ruminococcus albus	0.0041^c	0.0054^b	0.0069^a	0.0004	0.001
Ruminococcus flavefaciens	0.0157^b	0.0240^a	0.0123^b	0.0018	0.001
Fibrobacter succinogenes	0.0198^b	0.2683^a	0.3085^a	0.0456	<0.0001
Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens	0.5698^b	0.6282^b	1.3083^a	0.1233	<0.0001
Streptococcus bovis	0.1040^c	0.5379^b	1.5213^a	0.2129	<0.0001
Prevotella ruminicola	0.0269^b	0.0337^b	2.2248^a	0.3671	<0.0001
Ruminobacter amylophilus	0.5398^c	1.8825^b	2.3032^a	0.2685	<0.0001

^a,b,cMeans in same row with different superscripts are different from each other (P < 0.05).

^aTreatments: CON = control (no supplements); BS = supplemented with urea-molasses lick block; CS = supplemented with concentrate.