Effects of insect diets on the gastrointestinal tract health and growth performance of Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii Brandt, 1869)

Table 2 Selected intestinal microbiota populations of Siberian sturgeon digesta at the end of the experimental period

Target	Diets			SEM	p-value
Target	CT	HI	TM	SEM	p-value
LOG CFU/g of digesta
Total number of bacteria	8.27^b	8.87^a	8.14^c	0.0479	0.0001
Clostridium leptum subgroup	7.66^b	8.12^a	7.73^b	0.0349	0.0001
Enterobacteriaceae	7.69^b	7.94^a	7.73^b	0.0301	0.0004
Clostridium coccoides – Eubacterium rectale cluster	7.40^b	7.66^a	7.55^a	0.0287	0.0008
Aeromonas spp.	8.10^b	8.45^a	8.13^b	0.03	<.0001
Bacillus spp.	8.02^c	8.42^a	8.25^b	0.03	<.0001
Carnobacterium spp.	7.97^c	8.34^a	8.20^b	0.03	<.0001
Enterococcus spp.	7.81^c	8.21^a	8.03^b	0.03	<.0001
Lactobacillus group	7.39^b	8.19^a	7.96^ab	0.12	0.0205

All values are means of nine cases (n = 9). Different letters indicate significant differences between treatments (P < 0.05)

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