Effect of ensiled mulberry leaves and sun-dried mulberry fruit pomace on the fecal bacterial community composition in finishing steers

Table 3 Effect of EML and SMFP on changes in the genus composition (as a percentage of the total number of sequences) in the fecal bacterial community

Genus	Experimental diet¹			SEM²	p value
Genus	CON	EML	SMFP	SEM²	p value
5-7 N15	5.27	5.95	6.51	0.45	0.21
CF231	2.36	2.16	2.95	0.59	0.62
Oscillospira	2.31	2.35	2.33	0.07	0.90
Paludibacter	1.12	1.18	1.37	0.12	0.33
Akkermansia	1.14	0.91	1.28	0.18	0.37
Dorea	0.96	1.03	0.95	0.08	0.78
rc4–4	0.88^b	1.21^a	0.71^b	0.10	0.01
[Prevotella]	0.57	0.65	1.02	0.15	0.12
Methanobrevibacter	0.46	0.47	0.77	0.26	0.65
Campylobacter	0.50	0.01	0.07	0.27	0.41
Others	4.02	4.29	4.55	0.23	0.30
Unknown	80.40	79.79	77.48	1.53	0.40

¹ CON Control (n = 4), EML Ensiled mulberry leaves (n = 4), SMFP Sun-dried mulberry fruit pomace (n = 4)
² SEM Standard error of the mean
Different letters in the same row indicate a significant difference between values within the row (p < 0.05)

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