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. 2017 Mar 14;8:429. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00429

Table 3.

Effects of starter feeding on the diversity of colonic mucosal bacterial communities at the 3% dissimilarity levela.

OTUb ACEc Chao 1 value Shannon index Simpson
M 477 ± 24 565 ± 28 562 ± 41 4.36 ± 0.16 0.03 ± 0.01
M+S 492 ± 22 582 ± 20 598 ± 13 4.23 ± 0.38 0.04 ± 0.04
P-value 0.203 0.181 0.034 0.373 0.331
a

Values shown are means ± SD, n = 8.

b

OTU, operational taxonomic units.

c

ACE, abundance-based coverage estimator.