TABLE 4.

The effect of treatment on the richness and evenness of the turkey cecal microbiota at 0, 24, and 48 h post-inoculation (hpi) of Salmonella Typhimurium and Reading during an in vitro turkey cecal model with and without the supplementation of Original XPC^TM (P < 0.05, n = 16, N = 96).

Alpha diversity1,2		Shannon diversity index			Pielou’s evenness index
Group 1	Group 2	H3	p-value	q-value	H	p-value	q-value
0 CON	0 XPC	0.520	0.471	0.543	1.111	0.292	0.438
0 CON	24 CON	7.089	0.008	0.015	7.388	0.007	0.020
0 CON	24 XPC	1.357	0.244	0.366	0.308	0.579	0.639
0 CON	48 CON	10.952	0.001	0.004	8.364	0.004	0.020
0 CON	48 XPC	0.889	0.346	0.471	1.772	0.183	0.305
0 XPC	24 CON	7.000	0.008	0.015	6.606	0.010	0.022
0 XPC	24 XPC	0.691	0.406	0.507	0.006	0.940	0.940
0 XPC	48 CON	10.140	0.001	0.004	7.707	0.006	0.020
0 XPC	48 XPC	0.000	1.000	1.000	0.280	0.597	0.639
24 CON	24 XPC	11.571	0.001	0.004	8.691	0.003	0.020
24 CON	48 CON	1.707	0.191	0.319	0.807	0.369	0.461
24 CON	48 XPC	8.691	0.003	0.008	5.491	0.019	0.036
24 XPC	48 CON	11.760	0.001	0.004	8.167	0.004	0.020
24 XPC	48 XPC	0.206	0.650	0.697	0.823	0.364	0.461
48 CON	48 XPC	10.667	0.001	0.004	6.827	0.009	0.022

¹Alpha diversity metrics were analyzed using pairwise comparisons in Kruskal–Wallis.

²Bolded values are those with significant p and q values.

³H-value: test statistic for Kruskal–Wallis.