. 2020 Mar 25;98(3):skaa070. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa070

Table 3.

In the phylum, the relative abundance of the bacterial communities from HFI, MFI, and LFI groups, %

Item	LFI (n = 6)¹	MFI (n = 6)	HFI (n = 6)	SEM	P-value
Bacteroidetes	74.01^a	77.76^a	64.76^b	2.52	0.09
Firmicutes	11.32^b	10.96^b	18.03^a	1.23	0.02
Proteobacteria	11.55	5.55	11.59	1.59	0.21
Spirochaetes	0.74	1.80	1.26	0.21	0.13
Bacteria_unclassified	1.16	1.16	1.40	0.09	0.45
Fibrobacteres	0.66	1.66	1.49	0.28	0.33
SR1	0.18^b	0.51^a	0.14^b	0.06	0.01
Tenericutes	0.15^b	0.31^a	0.25^a	0.03	0.04
Cyanobacteria	0.03	0.05	0.71	0.22	1.03
Candidatus Saccharibacteria	0.09	0.08	0.08	0.01	0.30
Verrucomicrobia	0.03	0.05	0.07	0.01	1.21
Candidatus melainabacteria	0.02	0.04	0.08	0.02	1.60
Actinobacteria	0.03	0.04	0.05	0.00	1.62
Elusimicrobia	0.01	0.03	0.06	0.01	1.20
Synergistetes	0.01	0.02	0.04	0.00	6.31
The ratio of Bacteroidetes/Firmicutes	6.85^a	7.78^a	3.88^b	0.67	0.03

¹ n = number of cows.

^a,bDifferent superscript letters within rows suggest that means differ significantly (P < 0.05) among different feed intake groups.