Relationship between the microbiota in different sections of the gastrointestinal tract, and the body weight of broiler chickens

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Table 2 Relative abundance of genera found in each section of the GIT

Genus	Abundance (%)			SD¹	P value
Genus	Crop	Ileum	Cecum	SD¹	P value
Bacillus	4.34^a	1.50^b	1.37^b	0.85	<0.001
Bacteroides	4.22^a	7.54^b	12.59^c	2.66	<0.001
Oscillospira	1.00^a	1.34^a	2.38^b	0.49	<0.001
Faecalibacterium	1.14^a	1.47^a	4.62^b	1.30	<0.001
Blautia	0.22^a	0.27^a	0.44^b	0.10	<0.001
Dorea	0.21^a	0.30^a	0.45^b	0.12	<0.001
Ruminococcus	0.99^a	1.24^a	1.85^b	0.43	<0.001
Desulfovibrio	0.09^a	0.22^b	0.13^a	0.07	<0.001
Lactobacillus	28.62^a	30.81^a	18.12^b	7.77	<0.001
Bilophila	0.03^a	0.04^a	0.10^b	0.04	<0.001
Coprococcus	0.17^a	0.23^a	0.34^b	0.11	<0.001
Staphylococcus	1.56^a	1.18^a	0.67^b	0.60	<0.001
Streptococcus	1.18^a	1.11^a	0.75^b	0.32	<0.001
Clostridium	0.96^a	0.79^ab	0.60^b	0.27	<0.001
Pediococcus	0.07^a	0.06^a	0.04^b	0.02	0.001
Prevotella	3.94^a	5.66^b	4.26^a	1.55	0.003
Akkermansia	0.05^a	0.04^a	0.20^b	0.20	0.033
Methanobrevibacter	0.08^a	0.16^b	0.15^ab	0.11	0.045
Selenomonas	0.10^a	0.09^ab	0.06^b	0.05	0.046
Bifidobacterium	0.84	0.61	0.77	0.33	0.077
Enterococcus	0.50	0.84	0.47	0.53	0.077
Lactococcus	0.09	0.05	0.03	0.16	0.489
n	19	20	20

One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post hoc test was used. Within a row, different superscript letters indicate significant difference (P < 0.05)
¹Pooled standard deviation