Table 1.

Alpha diversity of microbial communities in the rumen of steers according to RFI group^a

	Liquid			Solid
	p-RFI	n-RFI	P-value	p-RFI	n-RFI	P-value
Bacteria
Chao	1730 ± 301	1750 ± 281	0.863	1442 ± 388	1564 ± 379	0.417
Shannon	5.35 ± 0.34	5.44 ± 0.21	0.404	5.28 ± 0.27	5.32 ± 0.20	0.690
Simpson	0.018 ± 0.008	0.015 ± 0.007	0.345	0.017 ± 0.006	0.016 ± 0.006	0.903
Archaea
Chao	37.57 ± 9.36	48.11 ± 12.93	< 0.05	34.87 ± 6.87	42.26 ± 9.27	< 0.05
Shannon	1.86 ± 0.31	1.72 ± 0.34	0.292	1.81 ± 0.24	1.78 ± 0.33	0.898
Simpson	0.26 ± 0.12	0.3 ± 0.15	0.488	0.27 ± 0.09	0.28 ± 0.13	0.980
Fungi
Chao	289 ± 390	151 ± 71	0.199	128 ± 78	143 ± 71	0.602
Shannon	2.33 ± 0.42	2.27 ± 0.38	0.671	2.03 ± 0.65	2.18 ± 0.38	0.461
Simpson	0.20 ± 0.10	0.20 ± 0.09	0.999	0.29 ± 0.20	0.24 ± 0.13	0.452

^aValues of alpha diversity represent the mean ± standard deviation