Table 9.

The relative abundance of microbiota on phylum and genus level in cecum and colon of nursery pigs (%, n = 6)

Sow diet	Control		FSE1		SEM	P-value
Nursery diet	Control	FSE	Control	FSE		Sow diet	Nursery diet	Sow diet × Nursery diet
Cecum
Phylum level
Firmicutes	68.26	83.81	88.08	93.06	7.63	0.08	0.20	0.50
Bacteroidetes	28.40	12.05	7.36	3.82	7.71	0.08	0.22	0.42
Proteobacteria	1.77	1.73	3.87	1.88	1.10	0.33	0.38	0.40
Genus level
Lactobacillus	10.03	17.67	44.27	31.50	7.05	< 0.01	0.72	0.17
Streptococcus	8.22	9.74	12.96	13.80	4.24	0.32	0.79	0.94
Prevotella_9	7.33	5.66	3.84	2.35	2.82	0.25	0.59	0.98
Prevotellaceae_NK3B31_group	5.65	3.83	0.79	0.35	1.30	< 0.01	0.40	0.61
Colon
Phylum level
Firmicutes	61.67	74.77	86.83	76.80	5.85	0.04	0.80	0.07
Bacteroidetes	34.26	20.03	10.05	19.94	5.72	0.06	0.71	0.06
Proteobacteria	1.42	2.30	1.66	1.74	0.66	0.81	0.48	0.56
Genus level
Lactobacillus	5.19b	17.01ab	30.19a	16.11ab	4.28	0.02	0.80	0.01
Streptococcus	5.25	8.99	13.38	9.70	2.73	0.13	0.99	0.20
Prevotella_9	9.11	9.47	3.59	7.21	3.18	0.24	0.54	0.62
Prevotellaceae_NK3B31_group	6.07	2.82	1.41	3.37	1.13	0.09	0.58	0.06

¹FSE, Forsythia suspensa extract.

^a,bDifferent superscripts within a row mean significant difference (P < 0.05).