Table 4.

Alpha diversity parameters assessed by Ace, Chao1, Shannon, and Simpson indices.

Item	Treatment
	CON	DSS	HTPs
Shannon index	6.27 ± 0.07	5.71 ± 0.20**	5.72 ± 0.08
Simpson index	0.97 ± 0.00	0.94 ± 0.01**	0.96 ± 0.00##
Chao1 index	393.09 ± 30.64	371.89 ± 24.59	323.8794 ± 12.75#
ACE index	390.55 ± 23.95	374.08 ± 24.29	328.50 ± 13.87#

CON, Control group; DSS, DSS challenge group; HTPs, DSS challenge 300 mg/kg TPs.

**p < 0.01 v. the CON group. ^#p < 0.05 or ^##p < 0.01 v. the DSS group.