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Table 4 Effects of dietary tannin and herbal mixture supplementation on alpha diversity indices of rumen bacterial community in goats

From: Rumen fermentation and microbiota in Shami goats fed on condensed tannins or herbal mixture

 

Treatments

Mean

SEM

P-value

C

T

HM

Average Sequences reads

24,477

28,158

24,919

25,949

2241

0.79

Observed ASVs

410.75

462.4

532.2

468.45

28.62

0.23

Chao1

410.75

462.4

532.2

468.45

28.62

0.23

Shannon

4.89

5.04

5.17

5.03

0.06

0.25

Invsimpsone

53.58

72.20

79.92

68.56

7.17

0.32

  1. C = diet without supplementation; T = diet supplemented with tannins;
  2. HM = diet supplemented with herbal mixture; SEM = standard error of the mean