. 2022 Mar 31;13:840725. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.840725

TABLE 2.

Species and relative abundance of ruminal fluid microbiota in sheep at phylum level and genus level.

Bacterial taxa	CON	LC	MC	HC	SEM	P-value
						ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
Phylum level
Bacteroidetes	0.664^a	0.534^ab	0.595^ab	0.496^b	0.125	0.083	0.213	0.038
Firmicutes	0.244	0.367	0.290	0.383	0.123	0.185	0	0.078
Kiritimatiellaeota	0.022^b	0.012^b	0.011^b	0.059^a	0.023	0.000	0.020	0.625
Proteobacteria	0.024	0.035	0.037	0.011	0.025	0.290	0.691	0.768
Cyanobacteria	0.011^ab	0.020^b	0.006^ab	0.026^a	0.014	0.050	0.918	0.336
Actinobacteria	0.005	0.005	0.041	0.003	0.044	0.404	0.237	0.592
Others	0.030	0.029	0.021	0.022	0.017	0.764	0.206	0.462
Genus level
Prevotella_1	0.456	0.299	0.463	0.382	0.142	0.165	0.258	0.263
Unassigned	0.163^a	0.169^a	0.079^b	0.163^a	0.066	0.050	0.511	0.416
Lactobacillus	0.050^ab	0.004^b	0.185^a	0.172^a	0.143	0.068	0	0.294
Rikenellaceae_RC9_gut_group	0.093^ab	0.120^a	0.066^ab	0.043^b	0.048	0.028	0.521	0.471
Carnobacterium	0.009	0.091	0.002	0.130	0.109	0.121	0.838	0.206
Ruminococcaceae_NK4A214_group	0.030^b	0.059^a	0.059^a	0.009^c	0.024	0.000	0.035	0.609
Christensenellaceae_R-7_group	0.025^a	0.016^ab	0.007^b	0.011^ab	0.013	0.097	0.141	0.026
Butyrivibrio_2	0.010^b	0.036^a	0.005^b	0.005^b	0.015	0.000	0.560	0.453
Leuconostoc	0.018	0.000	0.023	0.004	0.025	0.373	0.318	0.475
Succiniclasticum	0.015	0.020	0.003	0.006	0.018	0.378	0.824	0.515
Others	0.133^ab	0.186^a	0.164^ab	0.076^b	0.078	0.077	0.474	0.462

CON, C. deserticola at 0%; LC, C. deserticola at 2%; MC, C. deserticola at 4%; HC, C. deserticola at 6%. ^{a, b}, and ^c mean within the same row with the different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05).