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. 2024 May 5;15:63. doi: 10.1186/s40104-024-01021-8

Table 2.

Alpha diversity of jejunal mucosa-associated microbiota at the species level in nursery pigs fed diets with increasing levels of xylanase and β-glucanase combination (XG)a

Item  XG, (TXU/TGU)/kg SEMb  P value
0 280/125 560/250 840/375 1,120/500 Linear Quadratic
Chao 1 268.9 290.0 402.0 233.6 232.6 91.7 0.663 0.360
Shannon 4.37 5.37 5.28 4.56 4.20 0.79 0.642 0.263
Simpson 0.74 0.94 0.91 0.87 0.75 0.10 0.906 0.098

aExperimental unit was a pig and each level had 4 replicates (totaling 20 observations), representing the approximate median BW of each level

bSEM Standard error of the means