Table 2.

Comparison of microbial diversity between groups (A,B) in relation to the control group (C)

	Family		Genus		Species
	Shannon indexa	Simpson Indexa	Shannon index	Simpson index	Shannon index	Simpson index
Group A	9.5278	4.1271	18.2079	7.9176	14.0041	4.1848
Group B	9.1371	4.0175	15.8000	6.4409	11.5741	3.6983
Group C	12.0881	5.7677	20.7367	9.2367	13.0290	3.6255

^a For the definitions of Shannon and Simpson indices see formulas (1) and (2) respectively