Table 9.

Significant differences in genus level abundance in the ileal and cecal microbiota from broilers fed ZnS (ZnSO₄) or ZnAA (zinc amino acid complexes) supplemented.

Phylum	Class	Order	Family	Genus	Mean relative abundance (%)		Log2 fold change	Adjusted P-value
					ZnAA	ZnS
Ileum
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Lachnospiraceae	uncultured	0.039	0.499	−3.35	0.00081
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Lachnospiraceae	Blautia	0.020	0.158	−3.20	0.00119
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Lachnospiraceae	Lachnospiraceae NK4A136 group	0.018	0.176	−5.20	0.00115
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Ruminococcaceae	Butyriciccocus	0.007	0.086	−3.70	3.54E-05
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Ruminococcaceae	Anaerotruncus	0.001	0.025	−4.96	0.00132
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Ruminococcaceae	uncultured	0.004	0.026	−3.49	0.00209
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Ruminococcaceae	Subdoligranulum	0.047	0.560	−2.97	0.02537
Firmicutes	Bacilli	Lactobacillales	Streptococcaceae	Streptococcus	0.021	0.872	−3.932	0.00196
Proteobacteria	Epsilonproteobacteria	Campylobacterales	Helicobacteraceae	Helicobacter	0.019	0.510	−4.78	4.63E-05
Proteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria	Sphingomonadales	Sphingomonadaceae	Sphingomonas	0.013	0.313	−4.87	4.63E-05
Proteobacteria	Betaproteobacteria	Burkholderiales	Comamonadaceae	Delftia	0.045	0.455	−3.41	0.00030
Proteobacteria	Betaproteobacteria	Burkholderiales	Burkholderiaceae	Ralstonia	0.030	0.384	−4.35	4.63E-05
Proteobacteria	Gammaproteobacteria	Pseudomonadales	Pseudomonadaceae	Pseudomonas	0.023	0.475	−2.90	0.02537
Cecum
Firmicutes	Clostridia	Clostridiales	Defluviitaleaceae	Defluviitaleaceae UCG-011	0.003	0.002	−5.93	0.00094

The taxonomic classification, the mean relative abundance and the log2 fold change (of the DESeq2 normalized abundance of each species are shown).