Comparison of rumen bacterial communities in dairy herds of different production

Indugu, Nagaraju; Vecchiarelli, Bonnie; Baker, Linda D.; Ferguson, James D.; Vanamala, Jairam K. P.; Pitta, Dipti W.

doi:10.1186/s12866-017-1098-z

BMC Microbiology

Table 3: Mean abundance (%) and SEM of bacterial taxa (identified to the genus level) between low and high yielding cows within parity in Farm 12 and Farm 9

From: Comparison of rumen bacterial communities in dairy herds of different production

		Primiparous cows			Multiparous cows
Taxa	Herd	Low	High	P-value^‡	Low	High	P-value^‡
Bacteroidetes (Phylum)
Paraprevotellaceae (family)	Farm12	0.70 ± 0.05	0.57 ± 0.08	*	0.95 ± 0.06	0.82 ± 0.05
Paraprevotellaceae (family)	Farm9	0.85 ± 0.10	0.80 ± 0.05		0.69 ± 0.06	0.58 ± 0.05
Bacteroidales (order)	Farm12	11.54 ± 0.29	10.32 ± 0.30	***	10.54 ± 0.59	9.87 ± 0.32	*
Bacteroidales (order)	Farm9	11.28 ± 0.52	12.03 ± 0.59	**	12.43 ± 0.43	11.89 ± 0.38
BF311	Farm12	0.06 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.02		0.10 ± 0.04	0.04 ± 0.01	*
BF311	Farm9	0.10 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.03	*	0.16 ± 0.03	0.17 ± 0.03
CF231	Farm12	0.70 ± 0.07	0.61 ± 0.07		0.84 ± 0.06	0.73 ± 0.04
CF231	Farm9	1.16 ± 0.11	1.27 ± 0.12		1.24 ± 0.08	1.06 ± 0.09
Prevotella	Farm12	50.35 ± 1.71	53.39 ± 1.29	***	51.51 ± 1.80	52.05 ± 1.08
Prevotella	Farm9	49.55 ± 2.72	45.05 ± 1.77	***	47.60 ± 2.13	50.59 ± 1.74	***
Prevotellaceae (family)	Farm12	4.16 ± 0.13	4.22 ± 0.27		3.45 ± 0.25	3.19 ± 0.16
Prevotellaceae (family)	Farm9	4.30 ± 0.30	4.36 ± 0.21		5.13 ± 0.27	4.96 ± 0.20
RF16 (family)	Farm12	1.14 ± 0.20	0.93 ± 0.10	**	1.07 ± 0.12	1.09 ± 0.09
RF16 (family)	Farm9	2.03 ± 0.28	3.38 ± 0.47	***	1.51 ± 0.24	1.39 ± 0.43
S24-7 (family)	Farm12	3.04 ± 0.34	2.34 ± 0.11	***	3.25 ± 0.36	2.99 ± 0.49
S24-7 (family)	Farm9	2.21 ± 0.42	2.48 ± 0.27	*	1.70 ± 0.28	1.93 ± 0.31
YRC22	Farm12	0.52 ± 0.06	0.54 ± 0.06		0.54 ± 0.05	0.54 ± 0.05
YRC22	Farm9	0.63 ± 0.05	0.68 ± 0.06		0.85 ± 0.07	0.60 ± 0.06	***
Firmicutes (Phylum)
Mogibacteriaceae (family)	Farm12	0.19 ± 0.03	0.14 ± 0.02		0.27 ± 0.04	0.18 ± 0.03
Mogibacteriaceae (family)	Farm9	0.16 ± 0.05	0.22 ± 0.03		0.11 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.02
Anaerostipes	Farm12	NF	NF		0.04 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.01
Anaerostipes	Farm9	0.06 ± 0.02	0.09 ± 0.02		NF	NF
Anaerovibrio	Farm12	NF	NF		0.06 ± 0.02	0.04 ± 0.01
Anaerovibrio	Farm9	0.04 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.01		0.09 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.02
Asteroleplasma	Farm12	0.10 ± 0.02	0.09 ± 0.03		0.07 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.02
Asteroleplasma	Farm9	0.16 ± 0.04	0.10 ± 0.02		0.18 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.03
Butyrivibrio	Farm12	0.24 ± 0.04	0.09 ± 0.02	***	0.26 ± 0.05	0.20 ± 0.03
Butyrivibrio	Farm9	0.36 ± 0.06	0.24 ± 0.04		0.31 ± 0.05	0.36 ± 0.10
Christensenellaceae (family)	Farm12	0.09 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.01		0.07 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.01
Christensenellaceae (family)	Farm9	0.08 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.02		0.08 ± 0.02	0.12 ± 0.02
Clostridiales (order)	Farm12	2.70 ± 0.20	1.89 ± 0.14	***	3.33 ± 0.37	3.25 ± 0.38
Clostridiales (order)	Farm9	3.07 ± 0.35	3.05 ± 0.16		3.36 ± 0.39	2.98 ± 0.27
Coprococcus	Farm12	0.07 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01		0.18 ± 0.05	0.13 ± 0.02
Coprococcus	Farm9	0.06 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.02		0.05 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.01
Erysipelotrichaceae (family)	Farm12	NF	NF		0.03 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.01
Erysipelotrichaceae (family)	Farm9	0.06 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.02		NF	NF
Lachnospiraceae (family)	Farm12	1.31 ± 0.10	1.09 ± 0.12	*	1.53 ± 0.15	1.84 ± 0.15	**
Lachnospiraceae (family)	Farm9	1.48 ± 0.21	1.41 ± 0.10		1.56 ± 0.27	1.46 ± 0.15
Moryella	Farm12	0.06 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.01		0.13 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.03
Moryella	Farm9	0.13 ± 0.04	0.12 ± 0.02		NF	NF
p-75-a5	Farm12	NF	NF		NF	NF
p-75-a5	Farm9	0.05 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.01		0.06 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.02
Pseudobutyrivibrio	Farm12	0.07 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.01		0.10 ± 0.03	0.13 ± 0.03
Pseudobutyrivibrio	Farm9	0.08 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.01		0.06 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.02
RFN20	Farm12	0.53 ± 0.06	0.42 ± 0.05	*	0.49 ± 0.06	0.38 ± 0.04
RFN20	Farm9	0.79 ± 0.07	0.87 ± 0.09		0.62 ± 0.07	0.65 ± 0.05
Ruminococcaceae (family)	Farm12	1.40 ± 0.14	0.91 ± 0.13	***	1.43 ± 0.17	1.15 ± 0.12	**
Ruminococcaceae (family)	Farm9	1.51 ± 0.25	1.56 ± 0.17		1.24 ± 0.16	1.24 ± 0.12
Ruminococcus	Farm12	0.89 ± 0.13	0.56 ± 0.10	***	0.93 ± 0.09	0.91 ± 0.11
Ruminococcus	Farm9	1.25 ± 0.23	1.17 ± 0.11		1.08 ± 0.26	0.99 ± 0.15
Schwartzia	Farm12	0.06 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.02		0.07 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.01
Schwartzia	Farm9	NF	NF		NF	NF
Selenomonas	Farm12	0.14 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.02	*	0.17 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.03
Selenomonas	Farm9	0.15 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.03		0.20 ± 0.06	0.18 ± 0.03
Shuttleworthia	Farm12	0.08 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.01		0.08 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.02
Shuttleworthia	Farm9	NF	NF		0.05 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01
Succiniclasticum	Farm12	0.17 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.02	*	0.20 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.03
Succiniclasticum	Farm9	0.20 ± 0.02	0.13 ± 0.03		0.13 ± 0.02	0.13 ± 0.03
Veillonellaceae (family)	Farm12	0.66 ± 0.08	0.63 ± 0.08		0.70 ± 0.10	0.70 ± 0.06
Veillonellaceae (family)	Farm9	0.55 ± 0.04	0.41 ± 0.05		0.55 ± 0.08	0.55 ± 0.08
Proteobacteria (Phylum)
Alphaproteobacteria (class)	Farm12	0.07 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.01		0.05 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.01
Alphaproteobacteria (class)	Farm9	0.14 ± 0.04	0.15 ± 0.03		0.08 ± 0.03	0.07 ± 0.02
Deltaproteobacteria (class)	Farm12	NF	NF		NF	NF
Deltaproteobacteria (class)	Farm9	0.03 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.01		0.03 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.01
RF32 (order)	Farm12	0.11 ± 0.02	0.11 ± 0.02		0.15 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.02	*
RF32 (order)	Farm9	0.16 ± 0.05	0.18 ± 0.02		0.11 ± 0.03	0.11 ± 0.03
Ruminobacter	Farm12	NF	NF		NF	NF
Ruminobacter	Farm9	0.05 ± 0.02	0.09 ± 0.02		NF	NF
Succinivibrionaceae (family)	Farm12	4.48 ± 0.76	8.11 ± 2.05	***	5.92 ± 1.80	8.02 ± 1.45	***
Succinivibrionaceae (family)	Farm9	1.41 ± 0.28	2.68 ± 0.92	***	0.85 ± 0.32	0.66 ± 0.30	*

^‡ P-value comparing bacterial abundance of high and low milk production within parity
The magnitude of the P-value (*** P<0.001; ** P<0.01; * P<0.05)
NF Not found

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