Table 2.

Relative abundance of microbial phylum (percentage) in the duodenal mucosa-associated microbiota of pigs in the FF and control groups.

Phylum	Ctrl	FF	P-value
Firmicutes	59.15 ± 12.17	57.72 ± 8.16	0.939
Proteobacteria	1.03 ± 0.10	21.45 ± 9.43	0.175
Bacteroidetes	32.47 ± 9.96	7.91 ± 2.16	0.136
Spirochaetes	1.22 ± 0.34	0.34 ± 0.12	0.123
Unclassified phylum	4.19 ± 3.22	8.80 ± 6.66	0.665
Tenericutes	1.40 ± 0.28	0.45 ± 0.13	0.022
Actinobacteria	0.12 ± 0.03	2.23 ± 0.69	0.088
Chloroflexi	0.00 ± 0.01	0.72 ± 0.34	0.180
Cyanobacteria	0.24 ± 0.06	0.06 ± 0.02	0.116
Acidobacteria	0.02 ± 0.02	0.24 ± 0.12	0.238
Verrucomicrobia;	0.14 ± 0.08	0.08 ± 0.02	0.552

Ctrl, pigs fed with normal commercial feed; FF, pigs fed with fermented meal. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (control n = 4, FF n = 6).