Metagenome sequencing to analyze the impacts of thiamine supplementation on ruminal fungi in dairy cows fed high-concentrate diets

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Table 3 Effect of high-concentrate diet feeding and thiamine supplementation on relative abundances of fungi phylum in rumen fluid (%)

Item	Experimental treatments			SEM	P-value
Item	CON	HC	HCT	SEM	P-value
p__Ascomycota	0.339^b	0.107^c	2.040^a	0.266	< 0.001
p__Basidiomycota	0.116^b	0.013^c	0.677^a	0.090	< 0.001
p__Blastocladiomycota	0.014^b	0.001^c	0.092^a	0.012	< 0.001
p__Chytridiomycota	0.073^b	0.002^c	0.506^a	0.068	< 0.001
p__Microsporidia	0.026^b	0.002^b	0.175^a	0.029	< 0.001
p__Fungi_noname	0.130^b	0.015^c	0.851^a	0.114	< 0.001
p__Glomeromycota	0.049^b	0.006^c	0.294^a	0.039	< 0.001
p__Neocallimastigomycota	0.007^b	0.002^b	0.035^a	0.005	< 0.001

SEM, standard error of the mean; CON, control diet; HC, high-concentrate diet; HCT, high-concentrate diet supplemented with thiamine
^a,b,cMeans within a row with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05)