Table 4.

The significant bacterial differences in rumen fluid at the level of phylum

Phylum	Mean (HighS)	Std.err (HighS)	Mean (LowS)	Std.err (LowS)	p‐vlaue	FDR
Bacteroidetes	43.72	3.01	58.00	1.25	0.003	0.010
Proteobacteria	33.21	4.73	11.40	1.27	0.001	0.010
SR1	0.26	0.09	0.76	0.11	0.002	0.010
Verrucomicrobia	0.18	0.07	0.60	0.14	0.012	0.031
Euryarchaeota	0.10	0.02	0.22	0.03	0.008	0.024
Planctomycetes	0.04	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.003	0.010
Synergistetes	0.02	0.01	0.05	0.00	0.002	0.010
Chloroflexi	0.01	0.00	0.04	0.01	0.002	0.010

Note. HighS represents for rumen fluid of high‐production cows. LowS represents for rumen fluid of low‐production cows. Metastats is used for a two group comparison study. If p value is less than 0.05, there is significant difference in alpha diversity between the two groups.