TABLE 5.

α diversity of cecum and ileum microbial community in different groups^1,2.

Item	Group I	Group II	Group III	Group IV	SEM	P-value
Cecum
Shannon	3.00	3.61	3.47	3.19	0.135	0.404
Simpson	0.208	0.089	0.114	0.147	0.023	0.319
ACE	294.40	311.18	304.62	305.61	4.449	0.639
Chao	299.04	313.05	304.77	309.10	4.604	0.766
Ileum
Shannon	3.15926	4.22804	3.84302	5.84306	0.391	0.081
Simpson	0.13528	0.1852	0.16514	0.01094	0.043	0.508
ACE	460.473b	667.262b	735.252a,b	975.853a	58.653	0.007
Chao	441.658c	674.64b,c	740.653a,b	982.825a	60.437	0.006

¹Group I (control group), Group II (150 mg/kg NSPases in basal diet), Group III (25 mg/kg Bacillus probiotics in basal diet), Group IV (150 mg/kg NSPases + 25 mg/kg Bacillus probiotics in basal diet).

²Data is the mean of 5 replicates per treatment.

^a–cDifferent superscript letters in the same row indicate significant differences at P < 0.05.