TABLE 6.

Relative abundance of microbial phylum (percentage) in the colon of pigs in the FF and control groups.

Items	UF	FF	P-value
Firmicutes	40.42 ± 1.94	62.64 ± 3.52	0.001
Proteobacteria	1.68 ± 0.13	0.20 ± 0.05	<0.001
Bacteroidetes	51.59 ± 2.29	31.78 ± 3.27	0.001
Actinobacteria	0.15 ± 0.02	0.50 ± 0.10	0.020
Unclassified phylum	0.08 ± 0.02	0.04 ± 0.01	0.085
Tenericutes	2.27 ± 0.33	1.59 ± 0.23	0.129
Planctomycetes	0.02 ± 0.01	0.49 ± 0.23	0.095
Verrucomicrobia	0.57 ± 0.12	0.01 ± 0.00	0.005
Euryarchaeota	0.11 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.15	0.689
Spirochaetes	2.59 ± 0.30	2.50 ± 0.63	0.910

UF, pigs fed with normal commercial feed; FF, pigs fed with fermented meal. Data are presented as the mean ± SEM (n = 6).