Table 5.
Relative abundance of bacterial phyla in the cecal microbiota of broilers in different groups, %.
| Item | Relative Abundance, % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CC | SC | TC | SEM | p-Value | |
| Firmicutes | 86.44 b | 90.39 a | 92.71 a | 1.06 | 0.04 |
| Proteobacteria | 8.31 a | 3.31 b | 2.15 b | 0.09 | 0.01 |
| Bacteroidetes | 4.51 | 4.62 | 4.39 | 0.41 | 0.98 |
| Tenericutes | 0.41 | 0.41 | 0.33 | 0.07 | 0.88 |
| Actinobacteria | 0.20 | 0.29 | 0.21 | 0.04 | 0.64 |
| Verrucomicrobia | ND 1 | 0.51 | 0.10 | 0.14 | ND |
a,b Different superscript letters within a row indicate a significant difference at p < 0.05. CC, control group; SC, 25% of soybean meal (SBM) replaced with fermented SBM (FSBM); TC, 50% of soybean meal (SBM) replaced with fermented SBM (FSBM). 1 ND not detected.