. 2019 Aug 7;6:260. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00260

Table 1.

Relative abundances of major phyla-level taxa for microbiomes from different sample types and stages along the farm-to-fork continuum of a pasture-raised broiler flock¹, ².

	Hatchery (GIT) (%)	Brood (Feces) (%)	Pasture (Feces) (%)	Processing (SFR) (%)	Processing (Ceca) (%)	Processing (P-WCR) (%)	Final Product (FP-WCR) (%)
Actinobacteria	1.39	4.16	6.32	5.49	3.50	1.11	1.60
Cyanobacteria	2.27	0.02	0.02	3.96	0.18	6.28	2.80
Firmicutes	10.20^B	57.64^A	68.26^A	12.80^B	61.34^A	6.64^B	16.73^B
Proteobacteria	85.76^A	28.72^B	23.08^B	74.25^A	5.12^B	84.81^A	76.80^A
Bacteroidetes	0.18^B	7.96^B	1.85^B	2.85^B	21.89^A	0.70^B	1.53^B
Euryarchaeota	0.00^B	0.04^B	0.05^B	0.02^B	2.87^A	0.00^B	0.00^B
Tenericutes	0.00^B	0.40^B	0.02^B	0.05^B	2.11^A	0.05^B	0.00^B

Information in parentheses in the top row indicates the sample type (GIT, gastrointestinal tract; SFR, Skin & Feather Rinse; P-WCR, Processing Whole Carcass Rinse; FP-WCR, Final Product Whole Carcass Rinse).

Superscript letters next to the a-diversity estimates indicated significantly different values for a single metric across a row, based on mean separation of ANOVA using p < 0.05 significance level.