Table 4.
The abundances of butyrate-producing bacteria and terminal genes for butyrate synthesis in the colon of mice receiving fecal microbiota of Jinhua and Landrace pigs.
| Item | JM | LM | SEM | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clostridial cluster I | 6.56 | 7.21 | 0.93 | 0.109 |
| Clostridial cluster IV | 5.85 | 6.08 | 0.52 | 0.210 |
| Clostridial cluster XIVa | 8.15 | 8.43 | 1.09 | 0.662 |
| Butyryl-CoA acetate-CoA transferase | 6.21 | 7.19 | 0.58 | 0.041 |
| Butyrate kinase | 5.97 | 6.63 | 0.71 | 0.076 |
The abundance of bacterial groups was expressed as log10 16S rRNA gene copies/g of fresh colonic contents and of genes related to butyrate synthesis was expressed as log10 gene copies of total DNA/g of fresh colonic contents.