Genome wide transcriptome analysis provides bases on colonic mucosal immune system development affected by colostrum feeding strategies in neonatal calves

Table 3 Gene modules correlated with the bacterial abundance in the colon identified using a weighted gene co-expression network analysis

Module	Gene number (number of immune genes)	lac_C_P	lac_T_P	fea_C_P	fea_T_P	bif_C_P	bif_T_P
Black	488	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Blue	2332	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Brown	2102	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Cyan	140	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Darkgreen	60	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Darkred	60	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Green	955	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Greenyellow	264 (11)	NS	−0.52 (p = 0.006)	NS	NS	NS	NS
Grey	1505 (63)	NS	NS	NS	−0.68 (p = 9.00E-05)	NS	NS
Grey60	79	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Lightcyan	88	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Lightgreen	62 (2)	NS	NS	−0.82 (p = 1.00–07)	NS	NS	NS
Lightyellow	62	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Magenta	367	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Midnightblue	93	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Pink	435	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Purple	351	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Red	863 (46)	NS	NS	0.60 (p = 0.001)	NS	NS	NS
Royalblue	62	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Salmon	189	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Tan	204	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Turquoise	3730	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Yellow	1086	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS

Note: Only the number of immune genes in significantly correlated modules were shown in the brackets; NS = not significant; lac_C_p = Lactobacillus population from the colon content; lac_T_p = Lactobacillus population from the attached colon; fea_C_p = Faecali bacterium prausnitzii population from the colon content; fea_T_p = Faecali bacterium prausnitzii population from the attached colon; bif_C_p = Bifidobacterium population from the colon content; bif_T_p = Bifidobacterium population from the attached colon

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