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Table 4 Relative abundance (‰, annotated reads/1000 reads) of microbiome at a family 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

Lactobacillaceae

313.44

143.27

9.56

12.45

219.04

109.11

**

**

Ns

Prevotellaceae

178.81

148.76

113.84

46.93

194.37

54.30

*

Ns

Ns

Peptostreptococcaceae

122.82

39.45

157.57

17.76

118.31

54.27

Ns

Ns

Ns

Lachnospiraceae

101.79

31.65

100.53

29.11

107.18

11.63

Ns

Ns

Ns

Fusobacteriaceae

46.67

22.15

109.51

50.88

77.27

8.21

Ns

**

Ns

Erysipelotrichaceae

54.29

24.34

76.51

32.28

43.63

26.11

Ns

Ns

Ns

Bacteroidaceae

27.75

16.96

63.30

52.96

60.60

21.33

Ns

*

Ns

Ruminococcaceae

31.68

11.99

22.74

7.74

45.10

11.60

**

Ns

*

Veillonellaceae

13.43

8.65

103.87

101.55

14.54

6.12

Ns

*

Ns

Acidaminococcaceae

10.11

12.07

15.74

6.13

13.04

3.76

Ns

Ns

Ns

Sutterellaceae

8.73

7.42

13.28

10.18

14.42

4.52

Ns

Ns

Ns

Streptococcaceae

11.97

8.52

53.58

56.37

10.40

8.97

*

**

Ns

Enterococcaceae

7.68

6.41

24.71

19.35

14.12

19.58

Ns

*

Ns

Peptococcaceae 1

9.99

5.15

13.78

6.87

10.37

3.39

Ns

Ns

Ns

Porphyromonadaceae

10.46

8.27

17.45

13.40

9.26

2.37

Ns

Ns

Ns

Coriobacteriaceae

7.72

3.25

16.16

8.20

6.95

3.07

Ns

*

Ns

Clostridiaceae 1

6.88

6.49

16.56

8.42

5.86

5.28

*

*

Ns

Enterobacteriaceae

0.47

0.26

24.54

8.85

1.98

0.82

**

**

Ns

  1. 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
  2. Ns Not significant
  3. *Significant for P < 0.05
  4. **Significant for P < 0.01