Table 3.

Correlation coefficient and significance (P-value) between bacterial genera in the cecum of high and low feed efficiency groups.

Genus	Group	Bacteroides	Faecalibacterium	Ruminococcus	Oscillospira	Blautia	Bifidobacterium	Lactobacillus	Escherichia	Coprococcus	cc_115	Dorea	Butyricicoccus
Bacteroides	H		−0.3021	0.117	0.509	−0.119	−0.161	−0.161	−0.108	−0.358	−0.284	−0.405	−0.345
	L		−0.346	−0.263	0.412	−0.084	−0.197	−0.13	−0.223	−0.16	−0.087	−0.254	−0.172
Faecalibacterium	H	0.1042		0.311	0.076	−0.303	0.017	−0.441	−0.111	0.359	−0.121	0.008	0.203
	L	0.066		−0.207	0.086	−0.414	−0.052	−0.37	−0.045	−0.099	−0.053	−0.084	0.359
Ruminococcus	H	0.538	0.095		0.283	−0.464	−0.027	−0.519	0.256	0.018	−0.211	−0.2	0.17
	L	0.167	0.28		−0.276	0.583	−0.05	0.621	−0.116	0.377	0.544	0.319	−0.028
Oscillospira	H	0.004	0.69	0.13		−0.446	−0.318	−0.422	−0.026	−0.106	−0.5	−0.548	−0.369
	L	0.026	0.656	0.148		−0.513	−0.4	−0.346	−0.218	−0.028	−0.204	−0.403	0.36
Blautia	H	0.531	0.103	0.01	0.014		−0.204	0.479	−0.166	0.135	0.703	0.705	−0.317
	L	0.666	0.026	0.001	0.004		−0.111	0.792	−0.143	0.066	0.322	0.343	−0.389
Bifidobacterium	H	0.395	0.928	0.888	0.086	0.278		−0.198	−0.089	−0.172	0.124	−0.031	0.702
	L	0.305	0.79	0.797	0.031	0.567		−0.208	−0.025	0.005	−0.033	0.494	−0.19
Lactobacillus	H	0.394	0.015	0.003	0.02	0.007	0.295		0.048	0.117	0.115	0.296	−0.25
	L	0.501	0.048	3.26E-04	0.066	3.07E-07	0.278		−0.166	−0.025	0.246	0.24	−0.448
Escherichia	H	0.571	0.559	0.172	0.893	0.381	0.641	0.799		0.112	0.106	−0.158	0.093
	L	0.245	0.818	0.55	0.255	0.458	0.899	0.391		−0.172	−0.106	−0.322	0.209
Coprococcus	H	0.052	0.052	0.924	0.578	0.478	0.364	0.538	0.557		0.194	0.433	−0.017
	L	0.407	0.609	0.044	0.885	0.735	0.978	0.897	0.373		0.222	0.367	0.064
cc_115	H	0.128	0.523	0.263	0.005	1.45E-05	0.513	0.547	0.576	0.305		0.529	0.229
	L	0.654	0.786	0.002	0.29	0.089	0.865	0.199	0.585	0.246		0.307	0.043
Dorea	H	0.026	0.967	0.29	0.002	1.35E-05	0.87	0.112	0.404	0.017	0.003		0.009
	L	0.184	0.664	0.092	0.03	0.068	0.006	0.21	0.088	0.05	0.106		−0.261
Butyricicoccus	H	0.062	0.283	0.368	0.045	0.088	1.53E-05	0.183	0.624	0.93	0.224	0.963
	L	0.374	0.056	0.887	0.055	0.037	0.324	0.015	0.276	0.743	0.823	0.171

Abbreviations: H, high feed efficiency group; L, low feed efficiency group.

¹The upper triangle is Pearson's correlation coefficient.

²The lower triangle is the P-value corresponding to significance. P < 0.05 indicated a significant difference, and P < 0.01 showed an extremely significant difference.