Table 2.
Summary statistic of colonic digesta bacterial community at the 3% dissimilarity level.
| Items | Treatment |
P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TS | CS | PS | ||
| OTU numbers | 857 ± 13ab | 901 ± 15a | 839 ± 17b | 0.019 |
| Coverage, % | 99.51 ± 0.04 | 99.60 ± 0.03 | 99.61 ± 0.02 | 0.112 |
| Richness | ||||
| Chao1 | 995.89 ± 17.56ab | 1049.74 ± 17.62a | 977.47 ± 17.62b | 0.028 |
| ACE | 992.51 ± 13.53 | 1030.63 ± 18.08 | 975.93 ± 18.36 | 0.103 |
| Diversity indices | ||||
| Shannon | 4.67 ± 0.07ab | 4.87 ± 0.06a | 4.52 ± 0.09b | 0.009 |
| Simpson | 0.69 ± 0.01 | 0.72 ± 0.02 | 0.67 ± 0.02 | 0.137 |
Values are means ± SEM (n = 8). Results were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Turkey’s test, and the variant letter in the same row indicated significant difference when P < 0.05. OTU, operational taxonomic units; ACE, abundance-based coverage estimator. TS, tapioca starch; CS, corn starch; PS, pea starch.