TABLE 1.

Microbial biodiversity of samples 1–4 based on the cultivation of isolates on TSA.

	Farm A		Farm B
Sample	1	3	2	4
No. milkings	6	1	4	2
TAC (log cfu/mL)	4.65	4.32	4.70	4.40
No. bacterial isolates	498	1,475	501	1,102
No. genera	36	47	57	60
No. hitherto unknown genera	2	2	5	3
No. genera with relative abundance ≥1% (% of isolates)	16 (92.4)	14 (91.2)	24 (86.2)	21 (90.7)
No. species	71	112	110	125
No. hitherto unknown species	21	23	28	24
No. species with relative abundance ≥1% (% of isolates)	22 (83.3)	22 (80.8)	27 (66.9)	23 (77.2)
No. genera detected in both samples (% of isolates)	20 (31.7%)		29 (33%)
No. species detected in both samples (% of isolates)	31 (20.4%)		39 (19.9%)
Shannon Index	3.357	3.47	3.996	3.696
Simpson Index	0.94	0.94	0.96	0.95