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Table 3 Means and standard deviation (s.d.) of total gas production (GP), methane (CH4) production and proportion (% CH4 on total GP) of the 339 observations belonging to 30 reference used for the final analysis. Additional file 2

From: Methodological factors affecting gas and methane production during in vitro rumen fermentation evaluated by meta-analysis approach

References

No. a

GP, mL/g DM

CH4, mL/g DM

CH4, % on total GP

mean

s.d.

mean

s.d.

mean

s.d.

Lila et al., 2003

3

200

31.0

76.0

23.26

37.6

6.05

Getachew et al., 2005

21

235

20.9

53.8

15.65

22.6

5.20

Longo et al., 2006

8

131

70.5

24.8

17.33

18.0

4.14

Soliva et al., 2008

26

129

49.5

15.0

10.46

10.6

3.72

Martínez et al., 2010

4

480

17.7

45.2

5.41

9.4

0.78

Sallam et al., 2010

3

72

33.8

7.3

3.61

10.1

0.61

Xu et al., 2010

15

163

75.5

16.9

3.90

12.1

4.51

Guglielmelli et al., 2011

5

141

16.6

24.5

5.23

17.3

2.32

Lee et al., 2011

2

194

65.8

23.8

8.27

12.3

0.07

Navarro-Villa et al., 2011a

27

141

59.9

20.5

8.78

14.8

2.58

Navarro-Villa et al., 2011b

4

158

14.5

35.3

1.80

22.4

0.95

Pellikaan et al., 2011

11

276

70.7

47.3

9.65

17.5

2.22

Purcell et al., 2011a

9

183

7.7

25.1

1.04

13.7

0.36

Purcell et al., 2011b

7

171

17.5

31.3

3.45

18.3

0.48

Theodoridou et al., 2011

4

133

5.3

33.0

6.60

24.5

4.49

Pirondini et al., 2012

2

243

40.3

40.3

5.73

16.6

0.35

Boguhn et al., 2013

8

292

17.9

44.2

5.53

15.1

1.42

Geerkens et al., 2013

3

307

52.4

50.7

9.29

16.5

0.41

Patra and Yu., 2013b

2

191

12.5

77.5

4.60

40.6

5.09

Ramin et al., 2013

32

223

77.5

36.2

9.83

16.9

3.03

Tuyen et al., 2013

4

95

41.8

17.6

7.17

19.1

2.39

Bezabih et al., 2014

58

200

39.5

41.9

11.91

20.9

4.19

Cattani et al., 2014

20

192

77.6

23.0

8.03

12.3

1.28

Elghandour et al., 2014

4

224

51.8

17.0

7.62

7.4

2.91

Kim et al., 2014

2

337

120.4

22.0

9.22

6.4

0.43

O’Brien et al., 2014

22

201

2.8

34.1

4.56

17.0

2.19

Pal et al., 2014

8

147

22.5

35.1

6.55

24.5

6.37

Hatew et al., 2015

4

312

23.8

54.5

5.78

17.5

0.63

Pal et al., 2015

18

101

33.3

11.5

2.57

12.2

3.11

Ramin et al., 2015

3

275

43.7

36.5

5.97

13.3

0.46

  1. aNo. = number of observations per article