Table 4.

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
Firmicutes	46.13	59.51	48.69	11.15	0.389	0.504	0.873
Proteobacteria	24.67	24.93	19.53	6.99	0.978	0.594	0.611
Cyanobacteria	16.47	8.67	15.91	6.78	0.409	0.778	0.290
Actinobacteria	12.03	6.40	10.34	3.25	0.221	0.407	0.719
Bacteroidetes	0.63	0.35	4.25	1.76	0.907	0.140	0.168
Others	0.84	0.16	0.52	0.35	0.178	0.491	0.528
Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio	76.01	149.82	54.56	55.75	0.342	0.262	0.793

¹ Negative control, ² Positive control (PC).