. 2019 Aug 30;14(8):e0221815. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221815

Table 5. Influence of AMPs on the proportion of different bacterial phyla.

Bacterial phylum		I	II	III
Bacteroidetes	0 d	36.99±1.45	34.35±2.82	36.15±3.77
	20 d	40.87±2.19	41.77±6.26	43.68±3.53
	60 d	47.12±1.10	51.81±4.75	52.77±4.33
Firmicutes	0 d	27.02±4.16	26.75±3.38	28.08±2.50
	20 d	27.19±1.77	30.40±4.44	29.65±3.32
	60 d	18.05±1.07^A	22.69±0.32^B	22.70±1.70^B
Proteobacteria	0 d	19.92±4.13	19.37±2.01	19.69±2.70
	20 d	19.23±2.88^A	9.31±1.10^B	7.73±2.46^B
	60 d	19.99±0.17^A	8.02±3.28^B	3.29±0.46^C
Verrucomicrobia	0 d	4.60±1.67	4.88±1.02	5.06±0.67
	20 d	4.34±0.34	4.85±0.19	4.45±0.40
	60 d	2.69±0.35^A	4.17±1.51^A	7.81±2.43^B
Fibrobacteres	0 d	5.25±0.63	5.76±0.23	5.30±0.62
	20 d	3.93±0.26^A	5.50±0.46^B	5.37±0.18^B
	60 d	2.63±0.40^A	4.47±0.33^B	4.36±0.31^B
Tenericutes	0 d	2.21±0.25	2.16±0.81	2.45±1.48
	20 d	1.83±0.58^A	2.05±0.54^A	3.72±0.92^B
	60 d	2.43±0.44^A	3.41±0.76^A ^B	4.56±0.96^B
Spirochaetes	0 d	0.95±0.15	0.85±0.18	0.69±0.29
	20 d	1.25±0.17^A	1.15±0.22^A	0.41±0.08^B
	60 d	3.00±0.71^A	1.21±0.41^B	1.35±0.21^B
Cyanobacteria	0 d	1.67±0.45	1.53±0.22	1.24±0.39
	20 d	1.13±0.19^A	2.85±0.48^B	2.48±0.20^B
	60 d	0.60±0.11^A	2.09±0.39^B	1.45±0.35^C

^A,B,CValues with different superscripts in the same row differ significantly (P<0.05); I, control group; II and III, groups treated with 2 and 3 g/per head per day of antimicrobial peptides, respectively. (The table are detailed in S1 File)