Effects of different protein sources on nutrient disappearance, rumen fermentation parameters and microbiota in dual-flow continuous culture system

AMB Express

Table 5 Effects of different dietary protein source on the relative abundance (%) of the ruminal bacterial at phylum level

Taxon	Treatments			SEM	P-value
Taxon	SBM	RSM	CSM	SEM	P-value
Bacteroidetes	57.53	58.60	62.00	1.58	0.44
Firmicutes	24.48	23.04	21.67	0.88	0.46
Spirochaetae	8.71^a	4.14^b	4.27^b	0.64	0.01
Proteobacteria	7.39	11.84	10.31	1.49	0.46
Fibrobacteres	1.01	1.50	0.98	0.12	0.14
Tenericutes	0.52	0.48	0.39	0.04	0.28
Lentisphaerae	0.12	0.12	0.11	0.01	0.81
Elusimicrobia	0.12	0.14	0.19	0.03	0.91
Chlorobi	0.04^a	0.01^b	0.01^b	0.01	0.02
Actinobacteria	0.01	0.03	0.01	0.00	0.06
Cyanobacteria	0.00	0.01	0.02	0.00	0.55
Saccharibacteria	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.14
Others	0.06	0.09	0.05	0.01	0.22

SBM: Soybean meal; RSM: Rapeseed meal; CSM: Cottonseed meal
^abMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)