Table 3.

Alpha-diversity of bacterial community in the caecal and colonic digesta of weaned pigs¹

Sample	Control	Antibiotic	Probiotics	P-value
Caecal digesta
Sobs	420.00 ± 24.88	364.00 ± 39.15	315.00 ± 58.80	0.08
Ace	484.93 ± 28.01	416.52 ± 44.75	366.36 ± 58.34	0.05
Chao	484.75 ± 30.28	420.03 ± 36.42	373.23 ± 68.57	0.05
Shannon	4.40 ± 0.24	3.77 ± 0.58	3.71 ± 0.60	0.18
Simpson	0.03 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.06	0.07 ± 0.04	0.43
Colonic digesta
Sobs	475.33 ± 9.07	427.33 ± 47.06	381.67 ± 34.65	0.05
Ace	521.66 ± 23.2	476.79 ± 43.89	446.49 ± 34.49	0.11
Chao	529.69 ± 30.55	480.54 ± 50.12	476.30 ± 60.38	0.30
Shannon	4.62 ± 0.07	4.08 ± 0.38	3.74 ± 0.50	0.06
Simpson	0.03 ± 0.002	0.05 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.06	0.06

¹ Caecal and colonic digesta samples were obtained from three pigs per group and their microbiota composition were analyzed using 16S rRNA sequencing. All values are means ± SEM