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Table 3 The relationship between BW and bacterial relative abundance in each section of the GIT

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

	Crop			Ileum			Cecum
	Abundance (%)	r	P	Abundance (%)	r	P	Abundance (%)	r	P
Phylum
Actinobacteria	1.18	−0.65	0.003	0.95	0.08	0.729	1.05	0.00	0.990
Bacteroidetes	13.93	0.66	0.002	22.15	0.30	0.192	30.49	<0.01	0.990
Euryarchaeota	0.08	0.52	0.023	0.19	0.52	0.018	0.16	0.14	0.558
Firmicutes	59.62	−0.21	0.392	64.15	−0.36	0.119	58.37	0.06	0.812
Proteobacteria	7.89	−0.17	0.482	4.26	0.10	0.672	3.06	−0.17	0.472
Spirochaetes	0.37	0.33	0.172	0.43	0.47	0.035	0.46	0.23	0.323
Verrucomicrobia	0.09	0.30	0.208	0.06	−0.10	0.690	0.22	−0.41	0.073
Genus
Akkermansia ^a	0.05	0.09	0.706	0.04	−0.51	0.023	0.08	−0.55	0.022
Anaerovibrio	0.35	0.20	0.413	0.44	−0.20	0.398	0.29	−0.81	<0.001
Bacteroides	4.22	0.54	0.016	7.54	0.05	0.834	12.59	−0.34	0.142
Bifidobacterium	0.84	−0.64	0.003	0.61	0.49	0.029	0.77	0.01	0.981
Faecalibacterium	1.14	0.65	0.003	1.47	0.23	0.335	4.62	0.32	0.164
Lactobacillus	28.62	−0.39	0.099	30.81	−0.32	0.172	18.12	0.02	0.924
Lactococcus	0.09	0.24	0.315	0.05	0.16	0.490	0.03	0.59	0.006
Methanobrevibacter	0.08	0.52	0.024	0.16	0.56	0.010	0.15	0.18	0.435
Prevotella	3.94	0.15	0.542	5.66	0.34	0.145	4.26	−0.59	0.006
Ruminococcus	0.99	0.72	<0.001	1.24	0.08	0.746	1.85	−0.35	0.132
Streptococcus	1.18	0.03	0.913	1.11	−0.81	<0.001	0.75	−0.06	0.787

r is Pearson’s correlation coefficient
^aThree outliers were identified using Grubb’s test and removed from the cecum data

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