TABLE 3.

Reads, OTUs, Good’s Coverage, Chao1, and Shannon’s indices for 16S r RNA sequencing of the bacon samples.

Group	Reads		OTUs		Good’s coverage		Chao1		Shannon
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
M	31,778	3,408	483	73b	99.25%	0.11%	552.2	73.4b	4.77	0.29c
F	32,472	3,690	1,085	176ab	99.61%	0.08%	1149.1	38.8a	6.91	0.44b
S	30,505	1,903	1,145	173a	99.88%	0.06%	1146.6	73.9a	7.51	0.37a

M, sample from the muscle tissue of bacon; F, sample from the adipose tissue of bacon; S, sample from pork skin of bacon. Lowercase letters indicate Duncan’s pairwise differences between samples from different tissue of bacon (p < 0.05).