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Table 2 Relative abundance of significant taxa in the four feed efficiency groups

From: Microbial community profiles of the colon from steers differing in feed efficiency

Classification

Percentage of sequencesa

SEM

P valueb

No. of steers with detectable taxonc

ADGHigh–ADFIHigh

ADGHigh–ADFILow

ADGLow–ADFILow

ADGLow–ADFIHigh

Anaeroplasma

0.1587

0.0591

0.0652

0.0854

0.0230

0.0222

30

Cyanobacteria

0.0187

0.0103

0.0113

0.0093

0.0024

0.0479

29

Faecalibacterium

0.1976

0.0276

0.0357

0.0916

0.0419

0.0361

23

Family Barnesiellaceae

2.49 × 10−4

0.0192

0.0216

9.93 × 10−4

0.0063

0.0471

24

Family Mogibacteriaceae

0.1013

0.1611

0.0762

0.2295

0.0358

0.0309

30

Family Sphingomonadaceae

0.0012

0.0011

2.38 × 10−4

1.24 × 10−4

3.11 × 10−4

0.0386

29

Paludibacter

1.23 × 10−4

4.86 × 10−5

0.0028

9.94 × 10−4

6.29 × 10−4

0.0226

27

Prevotella

7.9657

3.1272

3.9112

3.5961

1.1520

0.0259

30

Pseudobutyrivibrio

0.0187

0.0103

0.0113

0.0093

0.0024

0.0479

21

Succinivibrio

0.0090

9.76 × 10−4

0.0020

0.0037

0.0020

0.0412

29

  1. aData is shown as LSMeans.
  2. b P values indicate groups that differ (P < 0.05).
  3. cAll data are defined as taxa that are present in at least 50% of the samples.