Table 6.
Effects of different doses of C. butyricum on phylum relative rumen microbiota abundances (>1.0%) of fattening goats.
| Dieta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | CON | LCB | HCB | SEMb | P-value |
| Firmicutes | 54.65 | 33.19 | 42.8 | 4.51 | 0.150 |
| Bacteroidetes | 28.05 | 44.42 | 42.66 | 3.54 | 0.109 |
| Proteobacteria | 9.22 | 15.1 | 7.42 | 3.34 | 0.661 |
| Actinobacteria | 3.94 | 1.72 | 1.3 | 1.02 | 0.569 |
| Synergistetes | 0.64 | 1.18 | 1.63 | 0.33 | 0.518 |
| unclassified | 0.57 | 0.99 | 1.59 | 0.25 | 0.273 |
| Spirochaetes | 1.29 | 0.70 | 1.09 | 0.42 | 0.867 |
a
Diets: CON, control, a basal diet; LCB, low C. butyricum, a basal diet plus 2.0 × 108 CFU/kg; HCB, high C. butyricum, a basal diet plus 1.0 × 109 CFU/kg.
b
SEM, total standard error of means (n = 4).