Table 1.

Effects of high-grain (HG) diet feeding on the diversity of ruminal epithelial bacterial community at the 3% dissimilarity level.

	OTU	ACE	Chao 1 value	Shannon index	Evenness
Hay	1615 ± 227	5821 ± 1069	3561 ± 599	6.24 ± 0.23	0.77 ± 0.01
HG	1113 ± 56	3708 ± 507	2345 ± 200	5.79 ± 0.05	0.75 ± 0.00
P-value	0.016	0.047	0.028	0.117	0.602

Values shown are means ± SEM, n = 5.

OTU, operational taxonomic units; ACE, abundance-based coverage estimator.