. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2015 Jun;60(6):825–833. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000000752

TABLE 4.

Diversity measures obtained from fecal samples of BF and FF infants, mean ± SEM

	Observed OTUs, n	Shannon	Reciprocal Simpson	ACE	Chao1
BF, n = 16	48.0 ± 2.4	2.75 ± 0.11	4.29 ± 0.35	83.4 ± 5.37	92.7 ± 10.6
FF, n = 6	60.0 ± 3.3	3.10 ± 0.23	4.83 ± 0.73	87.8 ± 7.57	89.9 ± 7.03
P value	0.0894	0.1299	0.4645	0.6605	0.855

All samples were rarefied to 7,800 sequences.

P values were obtained by one-way ANOVA.

ACE, abundance-base coverage estimator; BF, breast-fed; FF, formula-fed; OTU, operational taxonomic unit.