The effects of dietary supplementation with mushroom or selenium enriched mushroom powders on the growth performance and intestinal health of post-weaned pigs

Table 6 The effect of dietary treatment on the bacterial abundance (%) at phylum level (least-square mean values ± SEM)

Phylum	Dietary treatments¹			SEM	P-value
Phylum	Basal²	inSeMP²	orgSeMP²
Bacteroidetes	8.87^a	16.91^b	18.14^b	1.374	0.0002
Firmicutes	83.73	77.43	77.64	3.142	0.298
Actinobacteria	0.48	1.26	1.43	0.399	0.192
Proteobacteria	1.05	1.61	1.34	0.406	0.634

InSeMP, mushroom powder supplemented with inorganic selenium; orgSeMP, mushroom powder enriched with organic selenium
¹Dietary treatments: (1) Basal diet; (2) basal diet + inSeMP containing an inorganic selenium (selenite) content of 0.3 mg/kg feed and a β-glucan content of 650 mg/kg feed; (3) basal diet + orgSeMP containing an organic selenium (selenocysteine) content of 0.3 mg/kg feed and a β-glucan content of 650 mg/kg feed
²A total of 8 replicates were used per treatment
^a−bMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)

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