TABLE 2.

Relative abundance and standard deviation (SD) of genera that were present in the CE product, and the significantly different relative abundance in cecal content of CE broilers vs. control broilers at day 5 (n = 10) and 21 (n = 80).

Relative abundance CE product			Change in relative abundance CE vs. control broilers
			Day 5 Relative abundance (%)			Day 21 Relative abundance (%)
Genera	Relative abundance (%)	SD (%)	Control	CE	p-value	Control	CE	p-value
[Eubacterium] coprostanoligenes group	0.65	0.22				0.70	1.11	8.05 × 10–07
Bacteroides	0.47	0.06				–	1.12	9.06 × 10–15
Blautia	0.30	0.09				18.48	6.64	2.75 × 10–12
Candidatus_Soleaferrea	0.39	0.06
Clostridium sensu stricto 1	2.77	0.45	14.67	0.72	0.03	0.04	–	0.04
Clostridium sensu stricto 2	0.72	0.12
Collinsella	0.53	0.07	–	12.98	0.03	–	4.28	3.34 × 10–15
Enterococcus	10.80	1.07	31.76	13.40	0.03	0.46	0.94	2.67 × 10–03
Erysipelatoclostridium	2.53	0.09			0.03	1.84	0.99	0.03
Escherichia-Shigella	0.57	0.02	15.09	0.99	0.03	0.09	3.72 × 10–03	2.04 × 10–04
Eubacterium	0.66	0.04	–	3.31	0.03	–	0.20	2.22 × 10–07
Flavonifractor	1.02	0.14	–	0.79	0.03
Lachnoclostridium	9.78	0.93	–	1.77	0.03
Lactobacillus	14.96	1.33	–	10.77	0.03
Megamonas	1.55	0.56				–	10.36	3.34 × 10–15
Megasphaera	3.30	0.74				–	0.27	3.82 × 10–05
Negativicoccus	3.62	0.66
Oscillibacter	1.94	0.18
Peptostreptococcus	30.97	4.04
Sellimonas	1.31	0.38				1.14	0.64	2.60 × 10–04
Slackia	0.34	0.09				–	0.03	7.57 × 10–03
Sutterella	1.76	0.21				–	0.99	3.34 × 10–15
uncultured	4.45	3.56
Unknown	0.08	0.09

Results are based on differences of relative abundance tested with Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Adjusted p-values (<0.05) are corrected for multiple testing with Benjamini–Hochberg (BH). – = not detected.