Table 3.
Effect of high RFI (HRFI) and low RFI (LRFI) phenotype on species presence, individual OTUs present, species richness, species evenness, and alpha diversity matrices (Shannon, Simpson) in the rumen liquid phase.
| Liquid |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HRFI | SD | LRFI | SD | P-value | |
| HRFI n = 14 LRFI n = 13 | |||||
| Species | 2226 | 570 | 2083 | 538 | NS |
| Individuals | 120001 | 50708 | 105909 | 44989 | NS |
| Richness | 190.58 | 43.19 | 180.47 | 40.82 | NS |
| Evenness | 0.57 | 0.41 | 0.60 | 0.07 | NS |
| Shannon | 4.35 | 0.41 | 4.53 | 0.56 | NS |
| Simpson | 0.94 | 0.03 | 0.94 | 0.03 | NS |
P-values are derived using a Student’s T-test to assess the differences between treatments.