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Table 5 Effects of dandelion on the relative abundances of ileal microbiota at the phyla level (%)1

From: Effects of Taraxacum mongolicum Hand.-Mazz. (dandelion) on growth performance, expression of genes coding for tight junction protein and mucin, microbiota composition and short chain fatty acids in ileum of broiler chickens

Items

Treatment group

SEM

P-Value

CON

LD

HD

CTC

21 day

   Firmicutes

74.26y

90.57x

92.29x

87.57xy

2.687

0.09

   Cyanobacteria

11.06

6.36

4.86

8.28

1.574

0.57

   Proteobacteria

3.25

1.91

2.55

3.49

0.484

0.69

   Bacteroidetes

9.01a

0.82b

0.13b

0.22b

1.169

 < 0.01

42 day

   Firmicutes

86.04

90.62

73.78

81.47

3.352

0.35

   Cyanobacteria

4.99

0.83

14.15

10.73

2.471

0.24

   Proteobacteria

4.74

6.28

9.54

3.67

1.286

0.42

   Bacteroidetes

3.12

1.19

1.60

2.08

0.530

0.64

   Actinobacteriota

0.33y

0.40y

0.35y

1.17x

0.131

0.05

  1. CON The control treatment, LD The low dose of dandelion treatment, HD The high dose of dandelion treatment, CTC The chlortetracycline treatment, SEM Standard error of the mean
  2. 1Only bacteria with a relative abundance greater than 1% are shown in the table
  3. a,bMeans (n = 5) within a row with different letters differed significantly (P < 0.05)
  4. x,yMeans (n = 5) in a row with different letters tended to be different (0.05 ≤ P < 0.10)