Table 9.

Relative abundance of dietary ME and CP levels at the genus level of the gut microbiota (%).

ME, MJ/kg	CP, %	Bacteroides	Rikenellaceae_RC9_gut_group	Fusobacterium	Parabacteroides
11.31	14.0	35.65ab	7.40	9.17	2.53ab
11.31	15.0	39.15ab	8.23	9.05	3.19ab
11.31	16.0	30.23ab	11.31	1.49	3.66ab
11.51	14.0	31.87ab	8.14	1.12	1.73b
11.51	15.0	43.65a	7.14	1.98	2.92ab
11.51	16.0	31.75ab	11.67	0.76	3.92a
11.71	14.0	42.28ab	8.44	1.16	3.24ab
11.71	15.0	29.57ab	10.15	2.52	3.02ab
11.71	16.0	27.64b	8.89	2.27	2.55ab
SEM		1.82	0.63	1.23	0.21
ME	11.31	35.01	8.98	6.57	3.13
	11.51	35.75	8.98	1.29	2.86
	11.71	33.16	9.16	1.98	2.94
	P-value	0.83	0.991	0.177	0.885
CP	14.0	36.60	7.99	3.82	2.50
	15.0	37.45	8.51	4.52	3.04
	16.0	29.87	10.62	1.51	3.38
	P-value	0.195	0.222	0.578	0.303
ME × CP	P-value	0.256	0.599	0.769	0.339

Data in the same column without letters or the same letter superscripts mean no significant difference (P>0.05), different letter superscripts mean significant difference (P<0.01 as highly significant, P<0.05 as significant).