Effects of Enteromorpha prolifera polysaccharides on growth performance, intestinal barrier function and cecal microbiota in yellow-feathered broilers under heat stress

Table 5 Effects of Enteromorpha prolifera polysaccharides on the relative abundance of cecal microbiota at the phylum (top 10) and genus (top 20) level in yellow-feathered broilers under heat stress

Items	TN	HS	HSE	SEM	P-value
Phylum
Bacteroidetes	0.482	0.565	0.512	0.045	0.443
Firmicutes	0.402	0.342	0.374	0.036	0.529
Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes	0.887	0.645	0.790	0.146	0.522
Actinobacteria	0.031	0.011	0.012	0.010	0.335
Proteobacteria	0.051	0.037	0.051	0.011	0.588
Synergistetes	0.019	0.029	0.033	0.010	0.587
Tenericutes	0.0008	0.0005	0.0007	0.0003	0.703
Deferribacteres	0.0010	0.0008	0.0028	0.0007	0.108
TM7	0.0023	0.0028	0.0028	0.0010	0.962
Cyanobacteria	0.0002	0.0003	0.0003	0.0001	0.384
Verrucomicrobia	0.0001	0.0001	0.0003	0.00007	0.104
Genus
Bacteroides	0.210	0.249	0.230	0.061	0.907
Phascolarctobacterium	0.103	0.088	0.093	0.019	0.842
Faecalibacterium	0.060	0.039	0.053	0.019	0.719
Desulfovibrio	0.043	0.029	0.042	0.010	0.544
Oscillospira	0.015	0.034	0.024	0.007	0.165
Prevotella	0.022	0.023	0.017	0.007	0.786
Lactobacillus	0.018	0.010	0.013	0.005	0.673
Barnesiella	0.014	0.011	0.012	0.004	0.928
Parabacteroides	0.013	0.011	0.012	0.003	0.937
Subdoligranulum	0.008	0.004	0.015	0.005	0.295
Megamonas	0.020^a	0.002^b	0.005^ab	0.005	0.097
[Ruminococcus]	0.009	0.008	0.009	0.002	0.828
Megasphaera	0.009	0.004	0.007	0.004	0.622
Collinsella	0.0072	0.0005	0.0015	0.004	0.383
Alistipes	0.003	0.002	0.003	0.0005	0.272
Butyricicoccus	0.0026	0.0027	0.0025	0.0005	0.982
Blautia	0.0037	0.0015	0.0022	0.0008	0.175
Campylobacter	0.0018	0.0008	0.0021	0.0009	0.594
Mucispirillum	0.0010	0.0008	0.0028	0.0007	0.108
Sutterella	0.0008	0.0012	0.0018	0.0004	0.263

TN Thermal neutral zone, HS Heat stress, HSE Heat stress group supplemented 0.1% Enteromorpha prolifera polysaccharides, SEM Standard error of the mean, P P value for analysis of variance (ANOVA)
^a,bDifferent superscripts in the same row indicate a significant difference between groups (P < 0.05)

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