Composition and co-occurrence patterns of the microbiota of different niches of the bovine mammary gland: potential associations with mastitis susceptibility, udder inflammation, and teat-end hyperkeratosis

Table 1 Summary statistics comparing biodiversity and somatic cell count (SCC) of milk samples categorized based on high (≥10/4000 OTUs/sample) and low abundances of hub OTUs

OUT ID	SCC				Chao1				Shannon
OUT ID	Low^a	High^b	SED^c	p-value⁴	Low	High	SED	p-value	Low	High	SED	p-value
OTU_118	447,268	172,755	118,920	0.724	487.34	716.52	57.836	< 0.001	6.291	7.460	0.206	< 0.001
OTU_152	320,602	162,198	109,986	0.847	533.81	801.67	51.173	< 0.001	6.619	7.776	0.185	< 0.001
OTU_111	272,685	222,172	115,742	0.842	557.07	787.77	54.397	< 0.001	6.707	7.725	0.199	< 0.001
OTU_16	492,287	180,168	135,939	0.532	661.01	647.19	67.978	0.883	6.524	7.301	0.246	0.046
OTU_79	321,900	179,619	115,666	0.299	656.69	643.97	57.319	0.674	6.985	7.258	0.213	0.880
OTU_18	402,281	176,670	116,954	0.332	644.31	653.59	59.728	0.595	6.804	7.284	0.219	0.292

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