Table 8.
Effects of different doses of C. butyricum on phylum relative fecal microbiota abundances (>1.0%) of fattening goats.
| Dieta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | CON | LCB | HCB | SEMb | P-value |
| Firmicutes | 73.58 | 53.12 | 64.71 | 3.92 | 0.090 |
| Bacteroidetes | 18.32 | 23.97 | 23.87 | 1.94 | 0.436 |
| Spirochaetes | 1.48 | 6.99 | 3.09 | 1.48 | 0.324 |
| Actinobacteria | 2.15 | 2.81 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.278 |
| Proteobacteria | 1.13 | 2.25 | 1.53 | 0.20 | 0.058 |
| Verrucomicrobia | 0.29 | 3.29 | 1.29 | 0.58 | 0.082 |
| Epsilonbacteraeota | 0.16 | 4.00 | 0.22 | 0.96 | 0.176 |
| Tenericutes | 1.76 | 0.77 | 0.78 | 0.73 | 0.127 |
| Fibrobacteres | 0.23 | 1.19 | 2.87 | 0.15 | 0.366 |
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).