TABLE 3.

Alpha diversity measures of the red snapper external microbiota^a

Treatment	Good's coverage (%)	Richness	Shannon evenness index	Simpson index	Phylogenetic diversity
Seawater Control	99.6 ± 0.05	337 ± 60	0.66 ± 0.06	0.059 ± 0.032	27.6 ± 4.17
Bacteria/Recovery	99.6 ± 0.03	356 ± 54	0.68 ± 0.09	0.049 ± 0.037	29.6 ± 4.79
CEWAF/Recovery	99.6 ± 0.04	331 ± 43	0.66 ± 0.08	0.057 ± 0.050	27.8 ± 2.72
CEWAF/Bacteria/Recovery	99.6 ± 0.02	384 ± 59	0.59 ± 0.10	0.111 ± 0.095	31.6 ± 4.38
CEWAF	99.6 ± 0.07	341 ± 59	0.70 ± 0.05	0.038 ± 0.015	28.5 ± 2.70
CEWAF/Bacteria/CEWAF	99.6 ± 0.02	303 ± 65	0.68 ± 0.05	0.033 ± 0.014	26.3 ± 4.86
Avg	99.6 ± 0.05	342 ± 62	0.66 ± 0.08	0.058 ± 0.051	28.6 ± 3.96
P value	0.501	0.529	0.511	0.502	0.553

^aThe values shown are the average ± standard deviation (n = 4 per treatment).