Table 3.

Diversity of the microbial community in rumen solids from 6 cattle examined, evaluated from the V4 region of total rRNA data separated into values for the whole population of microbes in the entire set and values from the different taxonomic phyla examined.

		Phyla (V4)
	Whole population(V4)∗	Archaea	Bacteria	Eukaryote
Chao1	13814.7 ± 242	2418.35 ± 38.5	2129.47 ± 40.4	981.27 ± 25.5
Shannon	10.578 ± 0.05	8.936 ± 0.024	8.439 ± 0.034	6.023 ± 0.058
Simpson	0.996 ± 0.0004	0.994 ± 0.0001	0.989 ± 0.0004	0.952 ± 0.002
Observed OTUs	2740.5 ± 76.75	1018.8 ± 19.7	943.7 ± 18.8	413 ± 12.0
Goods coverage	0.459 ± 0.014	0.728 ± 0.005	0.789 ± 0.004	0.9 ± 0.005

^∗Data represents indices for the entire microbial population in the sample set.