| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |
| BM | Bacterial mixture |
| CFU | Colony forming unit |
| CTR | Control |
| HA | HiveAliveTM |
| NGS | Next Generation Sequencing |
| OTU | Open taxonomic unit |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PD | Phylogenetic diversity |
| qPCR | Quantitative Polymerise chain reaction |
| T0 | Experiment begins |
| T1 | Experiment end |