Table 2.
Item | Experimental treatments1 | SEM2 | P-value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CON | HG | HG+T | |||
OTU3 | 1,437 | 1,357 | 1,363 | 22 | 0.093 |
Good's coverage | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.0002 | 0.219 |
Chao1 | 1,576a | 1,484b | 1,519ab | 21.8 | 0.048 |
ACE4 | 1,595a | 1,492b | 1,565ab | 22.5 | 0.047 |
Shannon | 5.99a | 5.76b | 5.75b | 0.081 | 0.037 |
Simpson | 0.010 | 0.015 | 0.013 | 0.004 | 0.266 |
Means within a row with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05).
CON, control diet; HG, high grain diet; HG+T, high grain diet supplemented with 180 mg thiamine/kg DMI.
SEM, standard error of the mean.
OTU, operational taxonomic units.
ACE, abundance-based coverage estimator.