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Table 6.

Effects of light color on the cecal bacteria of Pekin ducks at the level of phyla

Items	Treatment					SEM	p-value¹⁾

	White	Red	Yellow	Green	Blue
Firmicutes	15.31^c	15.48^b	15.48^b	15.63^a	15.73^a	0.036	<0.001
Bacteroidetes	13.63^a	12.66^b	12.50^b	12.85^b	11.71^c	0.179	0.004
Proteobacteria	11.40	10.50	10.74	11.17	11.21	0.207	0.676
Tenericutes	10.28^a	8.019^c	9.43^b	10.57^a	9.18^b	0.28	0.015
Cyanobacteria	4.45	7.49	6.73	7.09	6.75	0.64	0.621
Actinobacteria	6.73	7.33	5.02	6.29	5.85	0.289	0.100

All values were firstly transformed using log2.

SEM, standard error of the mean.

¹⁾

Comparisons among groups based on a multivariate analysis of variance.

^a–c

Different letters differed significantly within a row (p<0.05).