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Table 5 Effects of dietary tannin and herbal mixture supplementation on relative abundances (%) of rumen bacterial phyla in goats

From: Rumen fermentation and microbiota in Shami goats fed on condensed tannins or herbal mixture

 

Treatments

Mean

SEM

P-value

C

T

HM

Actinobacteriota

0.79b

0.05a

0.10a

0.31

0.14

0.048

Bacteroidota

38.88a

62.37b

62.62b

54.62

3.62

0.001

Chloroflexi

0.23

0.09

0.149

0.15

0.028

0.12

Cyanobacteria

1.42

0.86

1.72

1.33

0.21

0.27

Desulfobacterota

0.11

0.05

0.09

0.08

0.02

0.54

Elusimicrobiota

0.09b

0.04a

0.036a

0.058

0.01

0.03

Fibrobacterota

0.09

0.064

0.05

0.07

0.014

0.39

Firmicutes

55.56b

34.54a

30.77a

40.29

3.37

0.0001

Planctomycetota

1.86

0.79

1.86

1.50

0.33

0.34

Proteobacteria

0.14a

0.21a

0.34b

0.23

0.030

0.012

Spirochaetota

0.70

0.46

0.92

0.69

0.12

0.32

Verrucomicrobiota

0.47a

0.42a

1.09b

0.66

0.12

0.026

Synergistota

0

0

0.28

0

0

0

  1. C = diet without supplementation; T = diet supplemented with tannins;
  2. HM = diet supplemented with herbal mixture; SEM = standard error of the mean