Table 5.

The relative abundance of Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Lactobacillus sp, and Enterobacteriaceae phyla as determined by The Real-Time Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR (qRT-PCR): Eubacteria 16S rRNA was used for normalization.

Group	Bacteroidetes	Firmicutes	Lactobacillus sp.	Enterobacteriaceae
C	1.15 ± 0.39	0.90 ± 0.41	1.11 ± 0.59	0.73 ± 0.33
E1	1.09 ± 0.21 ns	1.45 ± 0.52 ns	1.26 ± 1.57 **	0.005 ± 0.01 **
E2	0.97 ± 0.17 ns	1.56 ± 0.35 ns	4.55 ± 1.34 **	0.058 ± 0.05 **

C: control group; E1 group: basal diet with 0.5% bilberry leaves and E2 group: basal diet with 1% walnut leaves. All data are reported as mean values ± standard deviation (SD) and statistical significance, where ns: p > 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01; (n = 10); n: number of replicates.