. 2018 Nov 12;8:16712. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35081-4

Table 1.

Effects of dietary supplementation with B. licheniformis and S. cerevisiae as alternatives to monensin on growth performance of fattening lambs.

Items	Treatments					SEM	P-value
Items	NC	PC	BL	SC	BS	SEM	P-value
Initial bodyweight (kg)	32.29	32.02	32.28	32.34	32.47	0.29	0.995
dry matter intake (g/d)	1601.70	1592.94	1584.24	1612.95	1616.23	14.92	0.968
Average daily gain (g/d)	265.65^b	295.81^ab	304.66^ab	297.85^ab	322.26^a	4.77	0.047
Feed conversion ratio	6.03^a	5.52^ab	5.21^b	5.42^ab	5.03^b	0.11	0.038

^a,bValues in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).