Table 4.
Correlations of differentially detected bacterial genera with production performance and intestinal morphological parameters in the two housing systems.
| Intestinal part | Genus | Laying | Egg | Eggshell | Haugh | VH | CD | VCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rate | weight | strength | units | |||||
| Cecum | Phascolarctobacterium | −0.038 | −0.021 | 0.608** | −0.036 | −0.020 | −0.031 | 0.370 |
| Ruminococcaceae_UCG-005 | −0.218 | 0.526* | 0.018 | −0.044 | 0.342 | −0.389 | 0.220 | |
| Duodenum | Lactobacillus | 0.053 | 0.417 | 0.226 | 0.304 | 0.548* | −0.406 | 0.565* |
| Pseudomonas | −0.126 | −0.093 | −0.053 | −0.550* | −0.238 | 0.275 | −0.363 |
VH, villus height; CD, crypt depth; VCR, villus height to crypt depth ratio.
*
p < 0.05;
**
p < 0.01.