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Table 3.

Total number of reads per sample assigned to OTUs and alpha-metrics (mean ± standard deviation), namely Shannon's diversity index, Faith's phylogenetic diversity and Pielou's Evenness in the communities of fresh feces from puppies fed the inorganic (SeInorg) and the organic (SeOrg) selenium supplemented diets, collected at 5-time points from 20 to 52 weeks of age.

Categories	n	Reads	OTUs	Shannon's diversity index	Faith's phylogenetic diversity	Pielou's evenness
Diet
SeInorg	28	88 128 ± 26 512	132 ± 23	4.52 ± 0.749	10.8 ± 1.32	0.64 ± 0.089
SeOrg	30	83 583 ± 23 473	126 ± 23	4.38 ± 0.881	10.4 ± 1.23	0.62 ± 0.107
Weeks of age
20	12	90 391 ± 13 261	103 ± 27	3.33 ± 0.716^b	9.19 ± 1.502^b	0.50 ± 0.093^b
28	12	90 280 ± 13 083	138 ± 13	4.72 ± 0.458^a	11.2 ± 0.80^a	0.66 ± 0.056^a
36	12	96 859 ± 14 206	138 ± 13	4.70 ± 0.568^a	11.1 ± 0.72^a	0.66 ± 0.071^a
44	12	101 861 ± 28 237	142 ± 19	4.96 ± 0.612^a	11.2 ± 0.81^a	0.69 ± 0.072^a
52	10	49 887 ± 11 004	124 ±15	4.54 ± 0.519^a	10.2 ± 1.07^b	0.65 ± 0.060^a
Gender
F	29	85 087 ± 25 480	128 ± 24	4.42 ± 0.878	10.5 ± 1.40	0.63 ± 0.107
M	29	86 623 ± 24 782	130 ± 23	4.48 ± 0.763	10.7 ± 1.14	0.64 ± 0.091

^a–b

Values in the same column that share a common superscript are not statistically different (P > 0.05).

Letters from gender designate: F: female; M: male.