Development of the equine hindgut microbiome in semi-feral and domestic conventionally-managed foals

Table 3 Significantly enriched taxa at the family, genus and species level found in SFM foals from ages 1 to 6 weeks (p < 0.05, Kruskal-Wallis, LDA score > 2.0) compared with all other weeks

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
Firmicutes	Peptostreptococcaceae gen.	Holdemania spp.	Veillonella dispar		Coprobacillus spp.	Selenomonas noxia
	Clostridium spp.		Veillonella spp.			Mogibacterium spp.
	Ruminococcus gnavus		Christensenellaceae gen.			Mogibacteriaceae gen.
	Ruminococcus spp.		Lachnospiraceae gen.
Bacteroidetes		Odoribacter spp.		S24_7 gen.		YRC22 spp.
		CF231 spp.		Prevotella spp.		Rikenellaceae gen.
		Paraprevotellaceae gen.		Prevotellaceae gen.
				Prevotella copri
				Paraprevotellaceae gen.
Proteobacteria	Aeromonadaceae gen.	Desulfovibrio spp.			Methylobacteriaceae gen.	Campylobacter spp.
Proteobacteria					Helicobacter spp.	Campylobacteraceae gen.
Euryarchaeota			Dehalobacteriaceae gen.		Methanobrevibacter spp.	vadinCA11 spp.
					Methanobacteriaceae gen.	Methanomassiliicoccaceae gen.
						Methanocorpusculaceae gen.
						Methanocorpusculum spp.
Actinobacteria			Coriobacteriaceae gen.
Fibrobacteres				Fibrobacter spp.
				Fibrobacteraceae gen.
				Fibrobacter succinogenes
Spirochaetes					Treponema spp.
Planctomycetes						Pirellulaceae gen.
Chlamydiae						Chlamydia spp.
Verrucomicrobia						RFP12 gen.

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