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

Table 6 Effects of dandelion on the relative abundances of ileal microbiota at the genera level (%)¹

Items	Treatment group				SEM	P-Value
Items	CON	LD	HD	CTC	SEM	P-Value
21 day
Lactobacillus	39.21^b	64.20^a	62.68^ab	80.89^a	5.071	0.02
Romboutsia	5.79	9.05	3.76	9.76	1.793	0.64
Candidatus Arthromitus	8.99	8.46	3.50	5.67	1.352	0.47
unidentified Chloroplast	11.06	6.36	4.86	8.28	1.574	0.57
Escherichia Shigella	0.94	0.66	1.14	1.54	0.270	0.74
Enterococcus	2.81	2.57	1.11	2.14	0.499	0.68
Bacteroides	5.73^a	0.67^b	0.07^b	0.15^b	0.783	0.01
Streptococcus	2.90	0.93	0.83	1.29	0.626	0.66
unidentified Mitochondria	1.87	0.93	0.71	1.41	0.298	0.56
Alistipes	3.27^a	0.15^b	0.07^b	0.07^b	0.451	0.01
42 day
Lactobacillus	80.52	83.70	63.77	61.48	4.053	0.11
unidentified Chloroplast	4.97	0.62	14.14	10.71	2.478	0.23
Escherichia Shigella	3.28	0.81	6.00	1.03	1.123	0.34
Pseudomonas	0.58	1.85	2.13	1.11	0.318	0.31
Bacteroides	1.88	0.37	0.42	0.68	0.347	0.40
Candidatus Arthromitus	0.46	1.44	0.75	1.28	0.250	0.51
Lysinibacillus	0.07^b	0.10^b	0.87^ab	2.61^a	0.357	0.02

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
¹Only bacteria with a relative abundance greater than 1% are shown in the table
^a,bMeans (n = 5) within a row with different letters differed significantly (P < 0.05)

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