The equine gastrointestinal microbiome: impacts of weight-loss

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 6 Relative abundance of bacterial phyla before (pre-diet), and after 7 weeks of dietary restriction (post-diet; n = 15)

	Pre-diet	Post-diet	SED	Benjamini-Hochberg P-value
Firmicutes	0.2420	0.1894	0.015	0.007
Tenericutes	0.0062	0.0029	0.006	0.007
Elusimicrobia	0.0006	0.0014	0.003	0.007
Verrucomicrobia	0.0003	0.0008	0.005	0.121
Fibrobacteres	0.1602	0.2264	0.041	0.187
Candidatus Saccharibacteria	0.0008	0.0006	0.002	0.198
Bacteroidetes	0.4874	0.4740	0.017	0.697
Unclassified	0.0468	0.0487	0.008	0.697
Proteobacteria	0.0149	0.0158	0.008	0.754
Spirochaetes	0.0389	0.0383	0.01	0.997
Actinobacteria	0.0018	0.0018	0.002	0.997

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