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Table 1 Alpha diversity measurements in microbial inoculation treatments

From: The rumen liquid metatranscriptome of post-weaned dairy calves differed by pre-weaning ruminal administration of differentially-enriched, rumen-derived inocula

Diversity measurements

Bacterial-enriched (BE)

Protozoal-enriched (PE)

SEM

P-values

+

−

+

−

BE

PE

BE × PE

Bacterial alpha-diversity

Observed genera

525

507

533

499

17.465

0.643

0.367

0.906

Chao1 estimates

668

663

685

646

22.106

0.923

0.416

0.762

Evenness

0.328

0.360

0.331

0.356

0.011

0.155

0.265

0.660

Shannon's index

2.956

3.228

2.994

3.190

0.101

0.198

0.349

0.641

Simpson's index

0.756

0.810

0.762

0.804

0.019

0.161

0.279

0.690

Archaeal alpha-diversity

Observed genera

11

10

11

9

0.505

0.295

0.219

0.923

Chao1 estimates

12

10

12

10

0.827

0.306

0.306

0.808

Evenness

0.362

0.309

0.334

0.337

0.025

0.326

0.956

0.910

Shannon's index

1.224

0.995

1.137

1.082

0.088

0.225

0.766

0.987

Simpson's index

0.438

0.349

0.393

0.393

0.036

0.258

0.997

0.973