. 2020 Aug 21;11:2012. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.02012

TABLE 2.

Effects of experimental treatments on body weight (BW), average daily feed intake (ADFI), and average daily weight gain (ADG).

	Treatment					RSD	P-value	Adjusted P-value
	CTR+	PRO	PRE	SYN	CTR−
BW (kg)
Initial	6.80	6.76	6.78	6.88	6.81	0.140	0.687	0.777
Final	10.45^a	9.34^ab	8.86^ab	8.21^b	9.44^ab	1.067	0.009*	0.045*
ADFI (g)
Adaptation	291.2^a	242.2^ab	236.4^ab	225.2^b	249.0^ab	40.16	0.040*	0.131
0–4 PI	395.9^a	316.1^ab	287.4^b	255.2^b	315.8^ab	68.55	0.009*	0.045*
4–8 PI	481.5^a	314.9^b	299.9^b	219.1^b	316.1^b	103.10	0.001*	0.013*
ADG (g)
Adaptation	206.2	172.3	143.0	150.9	146.5	64.96	0.334	0.477
0–4 PI	274.7^a	223.7^ab	153.9^ab	85.5^b	222.9^ab	110.60	0.042*	0.131
4–8 PI	270.0^a	156.3^ab	136.4^ab	38.7^b	150.3^ab	97.46	0.003*	0.021*

Adaptation: pre-inoculation week (days 1–8); 0–4 PI: acute post-inoculation period (days 8-11); 4–8 PI: sub-acute post-inoculation period (days 11–15). CTR+: Non-Inoculated animals receiving placebo; PRO: Inoculated animals receiving the probiotic; PRE: Inoculated animals receiving the prebiotic; SYN: Inoculated animals receiving the synbiotic; CTR−: Inoculated animals receiving placebo. N = 6 for all groups except for non-challenged animals, N = 8. P- values were obtained by an ANOVA, using the linear model procedure in the R software and adjusted by the Benjamini–Hochberg procedure. Means in the same row with different superscripts are different from each other (Tukey’s < P 0.05).