Table 5.

Effect of maternal supplementation with XPC on the relative abundance of colonic microbial phylum level of offspring weaned piglets (%).

Items	CON	XPC	P-value
Firmicutes	41.06 ± 7.88	33.09 ± 4.53	0.401
Bacteroidota	40.92 ± 5.14b	53.56 ± 2.06a	0.046
Proteobacteria	7.07 ± 2.87	6.29 ± 3.52	0.420
Fusobacteriota	8.89 ± 2.61	4.42 ± 3.04	0.262
Actinobacteriota	0.41 ± 0.15	0.64 ± 0.42	0.423
Spirochaetota	0.08 ± 0.06	0.52 ± 0.41	0.806
Desulfobacterota	0.85 ± 0.23	0.72 ± 0.24	0.721
Patescibacteria	0.06 ± 0.04	0.28 ± 0.18	0.142
Cyanobacteria	0.00 ± 0.00	0.12 ± 0.09	0.153
Campilobacterota	0.09 ± 0.05	0.10 ± 0.10	0.798
Others	0.56 ± 0.10	0.26 ± 0.12	0.078

Data are expressed as mean ± standard error. Different lowercase letters in the same row indicate significant differences (p < 0.05). n = 6. CON, sows fed basal diet; XPC, sow fed basal diet + 2.0 g/kg XPC.