Table 1.
Diversity indices of the intestinal microbiota of broiler chickens.
| SP | BW | Diversity Indices (Mean) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OTU | Chao1 | Shannon | Simpson | PD | ||
| JC | LBW | 105 | 106 | 2.86 | 0.71 | 38.0 |
| HBW | 122 | 122 | 3.17 | 0.72 | 41.8 | |
| JM | LBW | 345 | 346 | 5.11 | 0.82 | 101.6 |
| HBW | 360 | 361 | 6.45 | 0.97 | 109.2 | |
| CC | LBW | 362 | 363 | 6.10 | 0.963 | 97.9 |
| HBW | 350 | 351 | 5.98 | 0.955 | 97.5 | |
| JC | 111 b | 111 b | 2.08 b | 0.71 b | 39.9 b | |
| JM | 345 a | 346 a | 3.97 a | 0.89 a | 105.4 a | |
| CC | 355 a | 357 a | 4.18 a | 0.96 a | 97.7 a | |
| LBW | 269 | 270 | 3.24 | 0.83 | 79.2 | |
| HBW | 272 | 272 | 3.59 | 0.88 | 82.9 | |
| Pooled SEM | 23.67 | 23.74 | 0.31 | 0.03 | 6.25 | |
| p-Values | SP | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| BW | 0.779 | 0.780 | 0.162 | 0.256 | 0.589 | |
| SP × BW | 0.860 | 0.863 | 0.247 | 0.311 | 0.891 | |
a,b Means in the same column with different letters differ significantly (p < 0.05). Legend: JC—jejunum chymus; JM—jejunum mucosa; CC—caecum chymus; OTU—operational taxonomic unit; PD—phylogenetic distance (whole tree).