Table 2.

Alpha diversity measures of bacterial communities.

Item	Day 42		Day 84			P-value
	CON	EW	CON	EW	SEM	Weaning time	Age	Weaning time × Age
Coverage	0.9976	0.9980	0.9983	0.9978	<0.001	0.627	0.130	0.180
Chao1	786.16	864.89	1115.07	1181.87	13.043	0.011	<0.001	0.822
Ace	802.08	872.75	1094.59	1117.06	12.694	0.007	<0.001	0.819
Shannon	3.17	3.45	4.05	4.26	0.039	0.005	<0.001	0.721
Simpson	0.10	0.09	0.07	0.06	0.003	0.325	<0.001	0.954

The CON group was weaned on day 56; the EW group was weaned on day 28.