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Table 3.

Effects of dietary EO supplementation on alpha diversity of cecal microbes in 21-day-old yellow-feathered broilers.

Items	CON	EO200	EO400	EO600	SEM	P-value
Items	CON	EO200	EO400	EO600	SEM	Treatment	Linear	Quadratic
Ace	497.16^b	497.84^b	886.73^a	552.60^b	42.15	<0.001	0.021	0.004
Chao1	907.82^b	850.63^b	2,257.35^a	1,118.42^b	178.22	0.008	0.112	0.067
Shannon	6.34	6.32	6.58	6.23	0.07	0.301	0.920	0.226
Simpson	0.97	0.96	0.96	0.97	0.07	0.878	0.860	0.440

CON, basic diet; EO200, basic diet contain 200 mg/kg essential oils; EO400, basic diet contain 400 mg/kg essential oils; EO600, basic diet contain 600 mg/kg essential oils.

^a,b

Mean value within a role with no common superscript differ significantly in the treatment (P < 0.05).