Inclusion of purified dietary fiber during gestation improved the reproductive performance of sows

Table 14 Pearson correlations between the gut microbiota, fecal SCFAs, serum parameters and sow performance

	Streptococcus	Treponema_2	Lachnospiraceae_XPB1014_group	Terrisporobacter	Prevotellaceae_UCG	Romboutsia	Prevotellaceae_NK3B31_group	Phascolarctobacterium	Prevotella_9	Prevotella_1	Succinivibrio
Acetate,	−0.071	0.090	−0.081	−0.001	0.207	0.045	0.167	−0.055	0.180	0.157	−0.003
Propionate	0.052	0.109	−0.079	−0.174	0.156	−0.162	0.199	0.047	0.281*	0.243*	0.079
Butyrate	−0.172	−0.021	− 0.185	0.015	0.128	0.071	0.140	−0.083	0.181	0.087	0.011
Total SCFA	−0.057	0.083	−0.098	−0.041	0.192	−0.001	0.178	−0.036	0.212	0.175	0.019
IL-6	0.009	0.163	0.491**	−0.049	0.138	−0.169	0.025	0.158	0.282	0.242	0.067
IL-10	0.092	−0.003	0.389*	−0.268	0.195	−0.397*	0.074	0.289	0.303	−0.026	0.220
TNF-α	0.072	−0.002	0.130	0.060	−0.157	0.145	−0.145	0.158	−0.425*	−0.413*	− 0.300
IFN-γ	−0.196	0.134	−0.062	− 0.080	0.062	− 0.073	−0.057	− 0.077	−0.118	0.240	0.070
Total born	−0.029	−0.015	− 0.267*	0.067	0.128	0.050	−0.029	−0.015	− 0.162	−0.100	− 0.013
Born alive	−0.166	0.013	−0.270*	0.077	0.182	0.016	0.055	−0.098	−0.071	− 0.033	0.036
Piglet mean BW at birth	−0.026	0.050	−0.215	0.039	0.064	0.032	0.212	−0.121	0.068	0.195	0.302*
Mean litter weight at birth	−0.101	0.035	−0.313**	0.078	0.156	0.038	0.166	−0.129	−0.001	0.102	0.203
Stillborn rate	0.163	−0.023	0.008	−0.016	−0.076	0.036	−0.093	0.106	−0.102	− 0.072	−0.055
Intralitter CV	−0.128	−0.002	0.077	0.025	0.029	0.027	−0.137	−0.188	0.041	−0.066	− 0.157
Duration of farrowing	−0.059	0.015	−0.185	0.008	−0.051	0.041	−0.073	− 0.173	−0.080	− 0.062	0.049

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