Table 3.

Alpha diversity of microbiota genus and species according to diet.

Iterm	Co	TOC	TCC	TOC+CC	p-Value	SEM
Genus
Good’s coverage estimator (%)	99.78	99.79	99.79	99.77	0.581	0.006
Observed genus	115.11	115.60	119.19	115.91	0.956	3.051
Chao1	134.10	135.65	138.70	138.75	0.964	3.625
Inverse Simpson index	7.00	6.62	9.12	9.04	0.479	0.707
Simpson evenness index	0.058	0.057	0.074	0.071	0.516	0.005
Species
Good’s coverage estimator (%)	93.20	94.45	93.61	94.42	0.481	0.315
Observed species	1352	1162	1358	1144	0.464	61.8
Chao1	2353	1950	2269	1945	0.434	105.1
Inverse Simpson index	29.20	47.23	67.17	59.96	0.508	9.36
Simpson evenness index	0.021	0.034	0.047	0.043	0.393	0.0057

Co: control; T_oc: 35% olive cake; T_cc: 30% cactus cladodes; T_oc+cc: 15% olive cake + 15% cactus cladodes; SEM: standard error of mean.