Table 2.

Supplementation with 30 mg/kg BW/day XN or its derivatives DXN and TXN decreases the relative fecal abundance^a

	CON	XN	DXN	TXN	SEM	XN vs CON	DXN vs CON	TXN vs CON
	Microbial Number (Counts/DNA)					P-values (Comparisons)
Total	48,896	46,062	39,634	33,259	2,683	0.42	0.01	<0.001
Firmicutes	27,397	26,676	28,295	25,034	2,555	0.84	0.80	0.51
Lachnospiraceae	17,737	18,185	19,467	17,125	1871	0.86	0.50	0.81
Ruminococcaceae	5,696	7,237	6,797	6,715	761	0.14	0.29	0.34
Erysipelotrichaceae	406	500	1,172	1,064	161	0.67	0.001	0.005
Eubacteriaceae	3,087	339	62	54	180	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Peptostreptococcaceae	276	272	217	44	78	0.97	0.58	0.04
Clostridiaceae	19.9	0.8	0.3	0.1	3.7	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Halobacteroidacea	102.4	73.0	0.3	0	8.4	0.01	<0.001	<0.001
Lactobacillaceae	15	4	1	1	3	0.01	0.002	0.002
Paenibacillaceae	0.1	0.1	1.5	1.2	0.3	0.05	<0.001	0.007
Natranaerovirga	0.1	0	545.1	1.2	287.1	1	0.17	1
Enterococcaceae	5.0	1.3	0.4	2.7	1.4	0.06	0.02	0.24
Staphylococcaceae	2.3	1.8	.3	0.4	0.6	0.49	0.24	0.03
Bacillaceae	0.7	1.3	1.8	0.9	0.6	0.41	0.15	0.77
Bacteroidetes	17,887	16,192	2,375	590	1,330	0.35	<0.001	<0.001
Porphyromonadaceae	17,838	16,154	2,367	584	1,328	0.35	<0.001	<0.001
Flavobacteriaceae	2.6	3.1	4.9	3.5	1.2	0.76	0.16	0.60
Chitinophagaceae	1.4	1.3	2.4	1.6	0.5	0.81	0.15	0.76
Rikenellaceae	2.6	1.9	0.5	0.3	0.6	0.42	0.01	0.008
Verrucomicrobia	3,534	3,061	8,824	7,576	2,833	0.90	0.18	0.31
Verrucomicrobiaceae	3,534	3,061	8,824	7,576	2,833	0.90	0.18	0.31
Tenericutes	50	0	0	0	0	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Anaeroplasmataceae	50	0	0	0	0	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Actinobacteria	111	109	81	23	24	0.96	0.37	0.01
Coriobacteriaceae	111	109	81	23	24	0.96	0.37	0.01
Proteobacteria	18	24	60	36	11	0.67	0.008	0.25
Enterobacteriaceae	4	6	31	10	8	0.87	0.02	0.62
Comamonadaceae	3.3	3.4	6.6	5.7	1.5	0.94	0.11	0.25
Oxalobacteraceae	2.4	3.8	5.1	4.1	1.0	0.33	0.06	0.23
Sphingomonadaceae	2.3	3.1	3.8	3.9	0.7	0.46	0.14	0.13
Methylobacteriaceae	0.1	0.1	0.8	1.0	0.4	1	0.21	0.14
Pseudomonas	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.77	0.57	0.84

^aPhyla and families within phyla are organized in the order of microbial number.