Table 2.

Relative abundance of OTU Bt-00010 in rumen fluid inoculum samples (D0) and in batch cultures after an incubation period of 7 (D7) and 14 days (D14). Abundance is presented as a percentage (%) of the total number of non-chimeric reads per sample.

Exp.	D0 *	Con-D7 &	Starch-D7 #	Con-D14 &	Starch-D14 #
E1 a	0.22	0.3 ± <0.01	43.0 ± 21.4	1.1 ± 0.7	5.4 ± 3.0
E2 b	1.2	0.2 ± 0.2	33.3 ± 16.8	0.2 ± 0.1	70.7 ± 2.4

* Value from a single sample. ^& Mean and standard error of the mean from two samples. ^# Mean and standard error of the mean from three samples. ^a p = 0.1638 (Kruskal–Wallis) ^b p = 0.1058 (Kruskal–Wallis).