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Table 3.

Effect of dietary supplementation with dehydrated alfalfa or fresh grass on peri-weaning period on relative abundances (%) of the different phyla and on Ruminococcaceae/Lachnospiraceae family ratio and Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio of rabbit caecal microbiota at 30 and 45 days.

Phyla	Experimental Groups ¹						CV ²	p ³
	30 Days			45 Days				p ³
	C	A	G	C	A	G		Age	Feed
Firmicutes	65.78 ^c	72.07 ^ab	62.38 ^c	78.87 ^b	83.64 ^a	79.98 ^b	6.65	***	*
Bacteroidetes	28.15 ^a	24.83 ^a	30.41 ^a	14.15 ^b	12.75 ^b	13.26 ^b	4.32	***	ns
Proteobacteria	4.50 ^a	1.59 ^b	1.92 ^b	3.02 ^ab	2.30 ^ab	3.48 ^ab	1.04	*	*
Tenericutes	0.76 ^b	1.19 ^b	4.22 ^a	3.02 ^a	1.10 ^b	2.28 ^ab	0.82	*	ns
Actinobacteria	0.78 ^ab	0.29 ^b	1.05 ^a	0.85 ^ab	0.17 ^b	0.96 ^ab	0.63	*	ns
Spirochaetae	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.09	0.04	0.04	0.05	ns	ns
Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes	2.34 ^d	2.90 ^c	2.05 ^d	5.57 ^b	6.56 ^a	6.03 ^ab	1.02	**	*
Ruminococcaceae/Lachnospiraceae	<0.001 ^d	1.58 ^b	0.03 ^d	0.77 ^c	24.32 ^a	0.07 ^d	3.12	**	*

¹ C = rabbit fed pelleted feed only; A = rabbit fed pelleted feed + dehydrated alfalfa; G = rabbit fed pelleted feed + fresh grass. ² CV = coefficient of variation. ³ ns = not significant. ^a–d Values within a row with different superscript letters differ significantly as followed reported: *** p < 0.0001, ** p < 0.001, * p < 0.01.