. 2019 Oct 22;8(10):503. doi: 10.3390/antiox8100503

Table 2.

Effect of molybdenum and tea polyphenols on top 5 phylum abundance of cecum microbiota of laying hens.

Items ¹		Firmicutes	Proteobacteria	Bacteroidetes	Actinobacteria	Gemmatimonadetes	Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes
MO, mg/kg	TP, mg/kg
0	0	75.68 ± 6.78 ^a	5.34 ± 2.18^b	10.52 ± 4.25	5.25 ± 1.21	0.79 ± 0.09 ^b	23.10 ± 8.24 ^a
0	600	86.36 ± 8.99 ^a	2.15 ± 0.89^b	5.98 ± 2.34	4.26 ± 0.78	0.10 ± 0.03 ^b	19.29 ± 6.10 ^a
100	0	41.77 ± 5.78 ^b	30.48 ± 2.21^a	12.39 ± 4.21	5.85 ± 0.45	2.52 ± 0.21 ^a	4.53±0.37 ^b
100	600	77.78 ± 7.91 ^a	8.18 ± 1.21^b	4.12 ± 1.09	5.43 ± 0.37	0.71 ± 0.10^b	29.46±8.98 ^a
p-Value		<0.01	<0.01	0.28	0.86	<0.01	0.01
p-Value
MO		<0.01	<0.01	0.99	0.52	<0.01	0.60
TP		<0.01	<0.01	0.06	0.61	<0.01	0.19
MO*TP ²		0.03	<0.01	0.57	0.84	0.05	0.05

¹ Each mean represents 5 cages, with 2 layer/cage. Abbreviations represented: TP = tea polyphenols; MO = molybdenum. ² MO*TP means the interaction between MO and TP. ^a,b Means in the same column with different letters differ significantly (p < 0.05).