Table 4.
The microbial alpha diversity in the cecal digesta of weaning piglets. OTU: operational taxonomic unit.
| Item | Effective Reads | Number of OTUs | Chao1 | Fisher Alpha | Shannon | Simpson Reciprocal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C 1 | 84,566.00 7 | 20,138.67 | 1352.67 | 250.88 | 7.62 a | 48.81 ab |
| A 2 | 97,807.33 | 23,335.67 | 1105.00 | 189.72 | 7.41 a | 39.44 bc |
| BLF 3 | 87,001.33 | 21,042.00 | 951.67 | 160.89 | 6.98 b | 36.59 c |
| AF 4 | 89,312.00 | 21,133.00 | 1156.67 | 204.37 | 7.64 a | 50.96 a |
| SEM 5 | 2244.360 | 514.455 | 53.385 | 12.787 | 0.083 | 2.189 |
| Adjusted p-Value 6 | 0.167 | 0.167 | 0.172 | 0.202 | 0.006 | 0.054 |
1 C = Basal diet; 2 A = basal diet supplemented with 30 mg/kg bacitracin; 3 BLF = basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg BLF; 4 AF = basal diet supplemented with 15 mg/kg bacitracin and 0.5 g/kg BLF; 5 SEM = standard error of mean; 6 adjusted p-value: false discovery rate correction using the Benjamini–Hochberg procedure; 7 data are mean values of 3 replicate per treatment (2 piglets per replicate); a–c means that have no superscript in common are significantly different from each other (p < 0.05).