Table 3.

Observed operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and α-diversity measures of bacterial communities between chicks from the control and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) groups.

Alpha diversity index	Control	FMT	SEM	P-Value
Observed OTUs	4357.68	6129.37	311.26	0.0
Abundance index
ACE	1227.56	794.68	66.82	0.03
Chao1	1041.05	770.13	56.09	0.02
Diversity index
Simpson	0.938	0.884	0.016	0.01
Shannon	6.714	5.51	0.24	0.01

All data are expressed as the mean ± SEM (n = 11/group) and presented for a similarity of 0.97 between the reads. Values between groups mean the index differ significantly (p ≤ 0.05).