Table 3.

Alpha diversity of the mucosa-associated microbiota in the jejunum at the family and genus level of broiler chickens fed diets with phytase supplementation.

Item		Phytase, FTU/kg Feed			p-Value
	NC 1	0 2	2000	SEM	NC vs. 0	0 vs. 2000	NC vs. 2000
Family
Chao1	60.50	50.32	67.51	5.46	0.182	0.040	0.371
Shannon	3.48	3.33	3.41	0.46	0.821	0.914	0.915
Simpson	0.78	0.75	0.81	0.09	0.846	0.640	0.776
Genus
Chao1	68.16	50.57	70.16	7.62	0.109	0.091	0.855
Shannon	3.38	3.09	3.16	0.53	0.684	0.921	0.772
Simpson	0.73	0.70	0.77	0.11	0.802	0.641	0.819

¹ Negative control, ² Positive control (PC).