The community structure and microbial linkage of rumen protozoa and methanogens in response to the addition of tea seed saponins in the diet of beef cattle

Table 4 Effect of tea seed saponins (TSS) on the methanogen communities (% of total sequences)

Assigned taxa	BD	TSS	BDP	SEM	KW_P
O-Methanobacteriales	99.42	98.55	99.55	0.22	0.440
F-Methanobacteriaceae	99.42	98.55	99.55	0.22	0.440
G-Methanobrevibacter	99.06	98.09	98.94	0.22	0.338
G-Methanosphaera	0.04^b	0.10^ab	0.14^a	0.02	0.010
G-Methanosarcina	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.892
O-Thermoplasmatales	0.51	1.29	0.37	0.20	0.446
G-Candidatus Methanomethylophilus	0.51	1.29	0.37	0.20	0.446
O-Methanomicrobiales	0.03	0.06	0.03	0.01	0.854
F-Methanomicrobiaceae	0.03	0.06	0.03	0.01	0.854
G-Methanomicrobium	0.03	0.05	0.03	0.01	0.720

Within the same row, values with a different letter were significantly different (FDR-P < 0.05)
KW_P values were the overall significant differences analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis test for the non-normally distributed data
BD Basal Diet, BDP Post-control period, SEM Standard error of the mean. O Order, F Family, G Genus

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