Table 4.
Item | Functional Oils, g/kg Feed 1 | p-Value | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.00 | 0.50 | 0.75 | 1.00 | 1.50 | SEM | Linear | Quadratic | 0 vs. Others | |
Proteobacteria | 73.50 | 59.22 | 52.26 | 68.31 | 60.16 | 6.12 | 0.313 | 0.205 | 0.009 |
Firmicutes | 11.97 | 20.50 | 22.12 | 17.17 | 23.32 | 4.24 | 0.013 | 0.258 | 0.009 |
Bacteroidetes | 8.16 | 8.57 | 11.99 | 11.83 | 14.37 | 2.14 | 0.012 | 0.304 | 0.050 |
Actinobacteria | 2.96 | 7.52 | 3.55 | 2.72 | 3.31 | 1.43 | 0.272 | 0.657 | 0.305 |
Others 2 | 0.70 | 0.45 | 4.91 | 0.27 | 0.66 | 0.83 | 0.658 | 0.635 | 0.843 |
F:B 3 | 2.08 | 4.04 | 2.30 | 1.42 | 1.10 | 0.56 | 0.054 | 0.979 | 0.870 |
1 Five supplemental levels of functional oils (n = 40 total, n = 8 per supplemental level). Results showed as means presented as back-transformed estimates with a 95% confidence interval. 2 Representing the combined total of all <1% abundance. 3 Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio.