Table 3.
Relative abundance (mean ± s.d., in %) of bacterial phyla > 1% and Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio (F/B ratio, median) in faecal samples of dogs fed the vegetarian diet (basic diet) or the vegetarian diet supplemented with feather meal as well as either cornmeal (basic diet + cornmeal), fermented rye (basic diet + fermentate) or rye (basic diet + rye).
| Phylum | Basic Diet (Vegetarian) | Basic Diet + Cornmeal (non-Vegetarian) |
Basic Diet + Fermentate (non-Vegetarian) |
Basic Diet + Rye (non-Vegetarian) |
adj. p-Value 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actinobacteria | 3.94 ± 3.16 | 7.56 ± 11.8 | 3.49 ± 2.97 | 2.48 ± 2.54 | 0.771 |
| Bacteroidetes | 26.7 ± 16.4 | 18.0 ± 14.8 | 43.2 ± 26.3 | 48.5 ± 25.2 | 0.378 |
| Firmicutes | 51.7 ± 17.1 | 61.3 ± 24.2 | 41.5 ± 21.0 | 37.7 ± 21.3 | 0.698 |
| Fusobacteria | 7.08 ± 10.5 | 4.24 ± 7.44 | 2.64 ± 2.20 | 0.48 ± 0.66 | 0.771 |
| Proteobacteria | 9.50 ± 6.58 | 7.76 ± 4.18 | 8.37 ± 2.86 | 8.81 ± 2.82 | 0.922 |
| Verrucomicrobia | 0.82 ± 0.72 | 0.98 ± 1.19 | 0.62 ± 0.63 | 1.57 ± 1.68 | 0.771 |
| F/B ratio | 2.47 | 5.12 | 2.17 | 1.03 |
1p-values were adjusted by the Benjamini and Hochberg (BH) method to control for the false discovery rate (FDR) of 5%.