Dietary substitution of soybean oil with coconut oil in the absence of dietary antibiotics supports growth performance and immune function in nursery and grower pigs

Table 3 Differentially expressed bacterial OTU copy number in fecal samples by diet treatment¹

ABX	COC	NABX	P-value	Bacterial taxonomy
389^a	887^b	404^a	0.04	Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Prevotellaceae; Prevotella
153^a	293^b	227^ab	0.02	Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidales S24–7
46^a	216^b	89^a	0.01	Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Lachnospiraceae; Ruminococcus torques group
15^a	201^b	125^b	0.01	Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Peptostreptococcaceae; Peptoclostriudium
1^a	23^b	12^ab	0.01	Firmicutes; Erysipelotrichia; Erysipelotrichales; Erysipelotrichaceae; Turicibacter
1^a	18^ab	53^b	0.02	Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Porphyromonadaceae; Parabacteroides
2^a	12^b	4^ab	0.03	Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Lachnospiraceae
3^a	0.81^b	0.8^b	0.03	Bacteroidetes; Bacterodidia; Bacteroidales; Prevotellaceae; Prevotellaceae UCG-100
3.7^a	0.53^b	0.92^b	0.03	Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridailaes; Lachnospiraceae; Coprococcus

¹ABX: 2% soybean oil with antibiotics; COC: 2% coconut oil without antibiotics; NABX: 2% soybean oil without antibiotics; OTU: average over all ages is shown for each diet treatment
^ab Within rows, values with common superscripts are not different (P > 0.05)

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