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Table 1 Microbial diversity indices of the faecal microbiota of high and low parasite burden sheep

From: Variation in gut bacterial composition is associated with Haemonchus contortus parasite infection of sheep

Diversity index

High-burden (mean ± SD)

Low-burden (mean ± SD)

p value

Species richness

2335.5 ± 42.33

2383.4 ± 30.10

0.03*

Species evenness

0.88 ± 0.005

0.88 ± 0.004

0.22

Chao1

3849.39 ± 101.84

3926.63 ± 86.53

0.14

Fisher’s alpha

956.86 ± 26.76

984.46 ± 26.06

0.03*

Shannon

6.83 ± 0.04

6.86 ± 0.03

0.13

Simpson

0.997 ± 0.0003

0.997 ± 0.0002

0.31

  1. Significance determined using the Mann Whitney test
  2. *p ≤ 0.05
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