. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Dairy Sci. 2017 Jan 26;100(4):2471–2481. doi: 10.3168/jds.2016-11890

Table 1.

Simpson and Shannon diversity indexes¹

	Simpson index			Shannon index
Item	C	WD	WD+BMO	C	WD	WD+BMO
Cecum	0.95 ± 0.04^a	0.60 ± 0.04^b	0.82 ± 0.04^a	0.93 ± 0.01^a	0.64 ± 0.02^b	0.74 ± 0.06^b
Colon	5.40 ± 0.04^a	2.52 ± 0.15^b	3.91 ± 0.28^c	5.06 ± 0.22^a	2.61 ± 0.11^b	3.28 ± 0.30^b

^a–c

Means with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05).

Data are means ± SEM; n = 5 to 6 per group. C: mice fed a control chow diet, WD: mice fed Western diet for 7 wk, WD+BMO: mice fed WD for 5 wk followed by WD supplemented with bovine milk oligosaccharides for 2 wk.