. 2018 Aug 15;9:1846. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01846

Table 1.

Alpha diversities within each age group in bacteria, richness, and evenness were measured by the Chao1 evenness index.

Time	Reticulum	Omasum	Abomasum
Day 3	433.78^a	362.28^a	321.26^a
Day 7	525.27^ab	528.28^ab	392.21^a
Day 14	805.07^bc	659.58^bc	503.03^a
Day 21	859.2^d	871.67^de	869.06^b
Day 28	803.96^d	982.83^e	785.42^b
Day 42	637.20^cd	737.06^cd	724.02^b
Day 56	724.38^d	822.95^cde	845.39^b

Tukey’ test for Chao index of OTU level in reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. a, b, c, d, e Means with different superscripts differ significantly each column.