Table 5.

Effect of cyclic temperature treatment on the cecum microbiota compositions at the phylum level.

Taxonomy	T24C	T30C	P value
Bacteroidetes	0.42 ± 0.02b	0.55 ± 0.02a	0.002
Firmicutes	0.25 ± 0.04	0.22 ± 0.01	0.437
Proteobacteria	0.07 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.008	0.616
Verrucomicrobia	0.03 ± 0.002	0.03 ± 0.001	0.776
Euryarchaeota	0.01 ± 0.003	0.001 ± 0.0002	0.057
Fusobacteria	0.03 ± 0.01	0.0004 ± 0.0001	0.112

Means with different superscript letters within the same line differ significantly, P < 0.05; data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 5).