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Table 4 Selected families on different sampling days

From: Influence of heat stress on intestinal integrity and the caecal microbiota during Enterococcus cecorum infection in broilers

Family

dph

Noninoculated, thermoneutral (%)

Noninoculated, heat stress (%)

EC-inoculated, thermoneutral (%)

EC-inoculated, heat stress (%)

p value

Lachnospiraceae

14

31.4 ± 3.5a

30.1 ± 2.3a

41.0 ± 4.8a

18.9 ± 2.3b

0.0032

21

27.2 ± 1.4a

33.4 ± 2.6ab

39.9 ± 1.7b

25.5 ± 1.4a

0.0002

42

24.2 ± 3.0ab

19.9 ± 1.6a

33.6 ± 3.1b

24.0 ± 2.0ab

0.0083

Rikenellaceae

42

25.83 ± 4.52a

30.77 ± 2.95a

0.02 ± 0.02b

24.46 ± 4.51a

0.0001

Enterobacteriaceae

42

2.02 ± 0.96a

0.20 ± 0.06b

2.44 ± 0.94a

1.75 ± 0.56a

0.0098

Ruminococcaceae

7

7.62 ± 4.86a

8.76 ± 2.05a

0.67 ± 0.24b

7.85 ± 2.99ab

0.0125

14

27.84 ± 3.82a

14.50 ± 1.30b

13.71 ± 2.55b

30.86 ± 2.17a

0.0001

21

27.51 ± 2.53a

21.46 ± 3.45ab

16.71 ± 1.29b

20.17 ± 1.50ab

0.0173

Oscillospiraceae

7

10.06 ± 1.98ab

10.88 ± 0.99a

6.41 ± 0.82b

14.71 ± 3.00ab

0.0417

21

22.23 ± 1.50a

15.04 ± 1.07b

18.57 ± 1.59ab

10.66 ± 1.09c

0.0001

Lactobacillaceae

14

7.79 ± 1.83a

15.73 ± 2.36b

9.73 ± 2.39ab

11.29 ± 3.10ab

0.0354

21

3.45 ± 1.33a

6.45 ± 0.95b

1.65 ± 0.35a

12.79 ± 1.46c

0.0001

Bifidobacteriaceae

7

3.10 ± 0.97a

0.00 ± 0.00b

0.18 ± 0.14b

0.00 ± 0.00b

0.0001

Enterococcaceae

14

0.00 ± 0.00a

0.14 ± 0.04ab

0.07 ± 0.01b

0.04 ± 0.02ab

0.0032

21

0.06 ± 0.01a

0.01 ± 0.01b

0.01 ± 0.01b

0.03 ± 0.01ab

0.0034

Bacillaceae

21

0.68 ± 0.22a

1.71 ± 0.53ab

2.03 ± 0.48b

0.60 ± 0.19a

0.0193

  1. Kruskal‒Wallis test and Mann‒Whitney U test, post hoc Benjamini‒Hochberg adjustment (α = 0.05). Different superscript letters indicate significant differences between groups per sampling day (p ≤ 0.05).
  2. dph: days post-hatch.