Table 12.

Bacterial phylum in feces of gestating sows correlated by Pearson’s correlation to different fiber components

Item	CF	NDF	DF	SF	ISF	Gestation stage
Firmicutes	−0.095	− 0.010	− 0.017	− 0.069	− 0.009	− 0.691**
Bacteroidetes	0.034	0.033	0.031	0.036	0.031	0.681**
Euryarchaeota	0.006	−0.153	− 0.141	− 0.049	− 0.153	0.177
Proteobacteria	0.248*	0.139	0.153	0.221	0.141	0.450**
Spirochaetes	−0.190	− 0.266*	− 0.264*	− 0.226	− 0.267*	0.242*
Tenericutes	− 0.117	− 0.089	− 0.090	− 0.113	− 0.086	− 0.576**
Cyanobacteria	− 0.213	− 0.257*	− 0.253*	− 0.238*	− 0.254*	0.363**
Actinobacteria	0.186	0.152	0.157	0.182	0.153	0.458**
Acidobacteria	0.263*	0.154	0.167	0.236*	0.156	0.328**
Planctomycetes	0.025	−0.114	− 0.103	− 0.023	− 0.114	0.369**
Verrucomicrobia	0.207	0.297*	0.291*	0.250*	0.295*	0.227
Fibrobacteres	−0.034	0.083	0.071	0.006	0.081	0.448**
Saccharibacteria	0.028	0.030	0.034	0.031	0.032	−0.056
Chloroflexi	0.223	0.144	0.155	0.206	0.145	0.252*
Synergistetes	0.016	0.139	0.130	0.060	0.139	0.417**
Firmicutes/ Bacteroidetes	−0.021	−0.001	−0.003	− 0.015	0.000	− 0.698**

* denotes P < 0.05 and ** denotes P < 0.01