Table 11.

Effect of replacing soybean meal with fermented corn germ meal (FCGM) in the diets on the diversity of bacterial community in feces of growing pigs.

Item	Dietary treatments1				SEM2	P-value
	FCGM0	FCGM10	FCGM20	FCGM30		Linear	Quadratic
Sobs	676	702	709	700	29.8	0.56	0.57
Shannon	4.41	4.57	4.80	4.93	0.12	<0.01	0.94
Simpson	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.01	0.16	0.98
Ace	811	733	793	807	31.2	0.74	0.17
Chao	820	735	803	820	32.1	0.64	0.14

¹FCGM0, FCGM10, FCGM20 and FCGM30 diets were made by substituting fermented corn germ meal for 0%, 10%, 20% and 30% soybean meal.

²SEM stands for the standard error of the mean (n = 6).