Table 4.
Comparison of the dominant phylum (average relative abundance ≥1% for at least one treatment) within the rumen. a,bValues in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).
| Phylum | Treatments | SEM | P-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC | PC | BL | SC | BS | |||
| Bacteroidetes | 67.09 | 65.61 | 65.80 | 63.52 | 68.41 | 0.82 | 0.420 |
| Firmicutes | 19.87 | 20.03 | 20.31 | 20.99 | 19.33 | 0.44 | 0.828 |
| Lentisphaerae | 2.64 | 2.98 | 5.15 | 4.34 | 2.70 | 0.33 | 0.051 |
| Proteobacteria | 3.83 | 2.97 | 2.72 | 2.68 | 2.32 | 0.31 | 0.627 |
| Fibrobacteres | 1.59 | 1.45 | 1.18 | 2.85 | 1.64 | 0.20 | 0.080 |
| Tenericutes | 1.43 | 1.86 | 2.11 | 2.03 | 2.23 | 0.09 | 0.061 |
| Spirochaetae | 2.05 | 1.79 | 1.52 | 1.59 | 1.60 | 0.09 | 0.410 |