Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 3 Effects of different rosemary supplements on select rumen microbial groups (log₁₀ rrs copies/g)

From: Dietary supplementation of Rosmarinus officinalis L. leaves in sheep affects the abundance of rumen methanogens and other microbial populations

	Diet				SEM	P-value
	CTR	RL pellet	RL	EO
Total Bacteria	11.03	11.01	10.89	11.01	0.06	0.1994
Archaea	8.86^a	8.69^b	8.64^b	8.80^a	0.05	<0.001
Protozoa	8.26^ab	7.71^b	7.97^b	8.75^a	0.15	<0.001
Prevotella spp.	9.92^a	9.68^b	9.72^b	9.90^a	0.12	<0.01
Fibrobacter succinogenes	6.86^b	6.90^ab	6.88^b	7.00^a	0.11	<0.001
Ruminococcus albus	7.62^a	7.67^a	7.27^b	7.64^a	0.16	<0.001
Ruminococcus flavefaciens	7.40^ab	7.59^a	7.59^a	7.43^ab	0.16	<0.05
Clostridium aminophilum	7.05^a	7.16^a	6.62^b	7.11^a	0.37	<0.001

^a,bMeans with different letters within a row differ significantly (P ≤ 0.05)
CTR control; RL pellet: CTR plus 10 g/d of dried and ground rosemary leaves pelleted into concentrate; RL: CTR plus 10 g/d of dried and ground rosemary leaves; EO: CTR plus 7 g/d of rosemary essential oil adsorbed on an inert support; NS not significantly

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