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Table 4.

Changes in Alpha diversity of samples between different groups.

Groups	Index
Groups	Chao1	Observed species	Shannon	Simpson	Coverage
BLANK	427.13 ± 30.94^a	399.60 ± 28.98^a	3.85 ± 0.81^a	0.81 ± 0.04^a	0.9989 ± 0.0001^b
MEPS-I	278.06 ± 14.55^b	267.93 ± 9.59^b	3.63 ± 0.12^a	0.84 ± 0.02^a	0.9995 ± 0.0002^a
FOS	246.00 ± 35.61^b	233.73 ± 38.41^b	3.50 ± 0.02^a	0.83 ± 0.00^a	0.9995 ± 0.0001^a

Notes: Different lowercase letters (a, b and c) show significant difference among different treatment groups (p < 0.05) in each column by a Tukey test.