Table 3.

Effects of LFMT treatment on the alpha diversity index of fecal fungi in weaned Holstein calves.

	Experimental treatments		p
	Control	LFMT
Coverage index
5 days	0.9999 ± 0.0000	0.9998 ± 0.0000	0.162
10 days	0.9998 ± 0.0000	0.9999 ± 0.0000	0.355
15 days	0.9999 ± 0.0000	0.9998 ± 0.0000	0.811
20 days	0.9997 ± 0.0000	0.9998 ± 0.0000	0.258
ACE index
5 days	87.47 ± 13.79	105.88 ± 5.12	0.364
10 days	77.37 ± 3.78	64.71 ± 9.36	0.245
15 days	91.70 ± 8.20	108.37 ± 15.48	0.33
20 days	107.46 ± 8.90	81.20 ± 8.49	0.072
Chao index
5 days	86.63 ± 15.86	109.60 ± 4.71	0.325
10 days	75.35 ± 3.45	61.95 ± 9.67	0.228
15 days	90.20 ± 8.97	108.39 ± 17.57	0.34
20 days	109.55 ± 7.51	84.65 ± 8.95	0.079
Shannon index
5 days	2.79 ± 0.23	2.48 ± 0.09	0.371
10 days	2.52 ± 0.03	2.69 ± 0.12	0.208
15 days	2.58 ± 0.12	3.11 ± 0.32	0.116
20 days	2.81 ± 0.33	2.21 ± 0.19	0.139
Simpson index
5 days	0.11 ± 0.04	0.18 ± 0.01	0.271
10 days	0.16 ± 0.01	0.14 ± 0.03	0.529
15 days	0.17 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.05	0.071
20 days	0.15 ± 0.12	0.26 ± 0.03	0.363

Experimental treatments: Control, normal saline; LFMT, 1 × 10⁸ CFU/ml bacterial solution/calf/time; The data at 4 time points after weaning are shown as mean ± SEM.