Table 2.

Bacterial taxa with significant differences in abundance in pairwise comparisons between treatment groups as determined by Mann–Whitney U-tests.

Taxonomic rank	Treatment Groupsa				Taxa with significant differences	Mann–Whitney p value
	Control		BMD
	Co	Ce	Co	Ce
Phylum					Proteobacteria	0.043
Class					Bacilli	0.019
Class					Clostridia	0.007
Genus					Lachnospiraceae	0.008
Genus					Oscillospira	0.008
Genus					Erysipelotrichaceae cc_115	0.034
Genus					Enterococcus	0.009
Genus					Peptostreptococcaceae	0.035
Genus					Lachnospiraceae	0.049

^aCo, colon; Ce, cecum. Filled cells show pairwise comparisons associated with significant differences in taxonomic abundance.