TABLE 5.

Effect of time of day between food timing conditions on diurnal rhythms of saliva sample’s α diversity

α Diversity	Time of day	Food timing condition	P, interaction
Phylum Shannon	0.763	0.485	0.004*
Phylum Simpson	0.506	0.543	0.039*
Phylum richness	0.006*	0.626	0.586
Phylum evenness	0.043*	0.712	0.009*
Class Shannon	0.949	0.618	0.049*
Class Simpson	0.812	0.739	0.089
Class richness	0.005*	0.380	0.369
Class evenness	0.094	1.000	0.017*
Order Shannon	0.997	0.696	0.127
Order Simpson	0.836	0.880	0.155
Order richness	0.028*	0.547	0.231
Order evenness	0.338	0.929	0.068
Family Shannon	0.387	0.867	0.015*
Family Simpson	0.571	0.773	0.041*
Family richness	0.055	0.519	0.134
Family evenness	0.082	0.813	0.027*
Genus Shannon	0.366	0.881	0.015*
Genus Simpson	0.496	0.828	0.109
Genus richness	0.076	0.509	0.102
Genus evenness	0.023*	0.882	0.063

Eighty saliva samples/analysis: number of saliva samples/time point/group = 10. *P < 0.05 (RMs, 2-way ANOVA).