. 2018 Mar 1;6:e4446. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4446

Table 1. Alpha diversity indices.

	CON	CON + inulin	DM	DM + inulin
OTUs	561.8 ± 27.6	556.8 ± 22.8	499.5 ± 29.9^**^,^##	423.5 ± 48.5^**^,^##^,^$$
Chao1	608.3 ± 23.7	588.0 ± 33.1	556.0 ± 32.2^**	467.3 ± 55.5^**^,^##^,^$$
Shannon	6.85 ± 0.29	6.77 ± 0.26	6.39 ± 0.34^*^,^#	5.93 ± 0.40^**^,^##^,^$

Notes.

Data are presented as means ± SD (n = 6). ^∗P < 0.05, ^∗∗P < 0.01 versus CON, ^#P < 0.05, ^##P < 0.01 versus CON +inulin; ^$P < 0.05, ^$$P < 0.01 versus DM (one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc test).