Early life microbial colonization of the gut and intestinal development differ between genetically divergent broiler lines

Table 2 Most abundant microbiota^a between lines X and Y

P^b	Class	Family	Genus	X.0	Y.0	X.4	Y.4	X.16	Y.16
F	Bacilli	Enterococcaceae	Enterococcus	83.5	71	0.16	1.33	0.09	0.72
			Other	1.12	1.28	7.74	8.6	3.2	6.12
		Lactobacillaceae	Lactobacillus	0.12	0.02	88	84.5	68.8	72.9
		Streptococcaceae	Streptococcus	0	0	1.6	2.45	14	15.1
		Bacillaceae	Other	0	0	0	0	1.48	0.01
	Clostridia	Other	Other	0	0	0.14	0.09	0.926	0.04
		Lachnospiraceae	Other	0	0	0.12	0.02	1.44	0.11
		Ruminococcaceae	Faecalibacterium	0	0	0	0	0.741	0.01
	Erysipelotrichi	Erysipelotrichaceae	Coprobacillus	0	0	0.02	0	1.5	0.01
Pr	Gammaproteobacteria	Enterobacteriaceae	Escherichia	12.6	26.8	1.47	2.69	1.98	0.84
T	Mollicutes			0	0	0	0	1.26	0.03

¹above 0.1 % average relative contribution in at least one condition
²P, Phylum; F, Firmicutes; Pr, Proteobacteria; T, Tenericutes
³In bold make up >95 % of the average relative contribution in a certain condition

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