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Table 1 Chicken growth performance in response to CTC and MCE treatments

From: The chicken gut metagenome and the modulatory effects of plant-derived benzylisoquinoline alkaloids

Group

Local yellow-feather chickens (day 56)

Arbor Acre chickens (day 42)

Feed intake (g)

Body gain (g)

Feed conversion ratio

Feed intake (g)

Body gain (g)

Feed conversion ratio

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3443.13 ± 37.87b

1505.37 ± 49.46

2.33 ± 0.05

4462.13 ± 73.48

2519.13 ± 28.14

1.78 ± 0.02a

CTC

3547.64 ± 63.51a

1551.70 ± 39.45

2.31 ± 0.05

4522.67 ± 80.36

2557.41 ± 40.17

1.77 ± 0.01a

MCE-L

3597.37 ± 45.27a

1538.34 ± 42.02

2.32 ± 0.79

4437.84 ± 89.70

2510.00 ± 45.12

1.77 ± 0.01a

MCE-M

3681.41 ± 126.91a

1577.95 ± 83.28

2.37 ± 0.06

4405.79 ± 88.12

2575.28 ± 45.66

1.71 ± 0.01b

MCE-H

3627.05 ± 184.14a

1551.34 ± 27.37

2.31 ± 0.07

4489.43 ± 73.73

2562.08 ± 38.05

1.75 ± 0.01a

P value

0.018

0.163

0.361

0.869

0.728

0.004

  1. Data are presented as mean ± SD; data in columns with no common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05). Feed conversion ratio (feed intake/weight gain). Data for growth performance were analyzed with one-way ANOVA and Duncan’s multiple comparison in SPSS Version 18.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA)