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Table 3 Relative abundance (‰, annotated reads/1000 reads) of microbiome at a phylum taxonomic level in the faeces of dogs fed a Reference diet (RF), Mixed diet (MD) or Control diet (CD)

From: Raw meat based diet influences faecal microbiome and end products of fermentation in healthy dogs

	RD		MD		CD		Effects
	mean	st. dev.	mean	st. dev.	mean	st. dev.	treatment	MD vs RD	CD vs RD
Actinobacteria	10.06	2.67	39.57	37.92	9.25	7.08	Ns	*	Ns
Bacteroidetes	220.87	162.85	197.99	77.81	269.22	72.28	Ns	Ns	Ns
Firmicutes	705.42	190.43	608.12	133.72	618.64	82.48	Ns	Ns	Ns
Fusobacteria	46.69	22.16	109.55	50.90	77.29	8.21	Ns	**	Ns
Proteobacteria	13.02	10.00	43.63	12.66	23.85	8.47	*	**	Ns

RD Reference Diet, extruded diet fed until the beginning of the experimental period (T0), CD The same RD diet used as Control Diet during the experiment, MD Experimental Mixed Diet
Ns Not significant
*Significant for P < 0.05
**Significant for P < 0.01

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