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 |
Values shown are means ± SD, n = 8.
OTU, operational taxonomic units.
ACE, abundance-based coverage estimator.