Table 6.
Effects of dietary supplementation of ANT, APS, and GPS on alpha diversity index of cecal microbiota in broilers (n = 4).
| Treatments |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | CON | ANT | APS | GPS | SEM | P-value |
| Chao1 | 1,758.65b | 1,838.56b | 1,898.76ab | 2,099.48a | 47.22 | 0.046 |
| Shannon | 7.88b | 8.10a | 8.21a | 8.09a | 0.040 | 0.009 |
| Simpson | 0.98 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.003 | 0.479 |
| Observed species | 1613.98b | 1597.35b | 1775.28ab | 1926.23a | 46.17 | 0.017 |
ab
Means within a row with no common superscripts differ (P < 0.05).
Abbreviations: ANT, basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg terramycin calcium; APS, basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg Astragalus membranaceus polysaccharides; CON, control group with basal diet; GPS, basal diet supplemented with 150 mg/kg Glycyrrhiza uralensis polysaccharides; SEM, pooled standard error of the mean.