Table 5.

Bacteria abundances in lambs with the least or most cellulolytic bacteria in the rumen

Item	LCB	HCB	SEM	P-value
Bacteria, log10,16S rRNA copy number/g rumen content
Fibrobacter succinogenes	8.54	10.58	0.237	<0.001
Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens	8.38	10.32	0.251	<0.001
Ruminococcus flavefaciens	7.74	9.87	0.341	<0.001
Ruminococcus albus	8.49	9.91	0.187	<0.001
Prevotella brevis	11.36	11.79	0.062	<0.001
Selenomonas ruminantium	10.65	11.88	0.137	<0.001
Streptococcus bovis	6.54	6.79	0.143	0.436
Total bacteria	15.55	15.92	0.062	0.001
% in the total bacteria × 10–4
Fibrobacter succinogenes	10.09	0.27	1.563	<0.001
Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens	10.75	0.14	1.897	0.002
Ruminococcus flavefaciens	3.01	0.10	0.670	0.026
Ruminococcus albus	2.43	0.22	0.402	0.003
Prevotella brevis	152.50	88.36	12.491	0.006
Selenomonas ruminantium	133.50	26.16	20.302	0.004
Streptococcus bovis	0.002	0.012	0.0055	0.387