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Table 2 Effects of different factors on the alpha diversity of dairy cow microbiota

From: Microbiota members from body sites of dairy cows are largely shared within individual hosts throughout lactation but sharing is limited in the herd

Factor

Observed richnessa

Shannona

Group of animals

0.9104

0.4935

Site

< 0.0001***b

0.1438

Time

< 0.0001***

< 0.0001***

SM_score

0.0039**

0.0576.

BC_score

0.0748.

0.4776

Site:SM_score

0.4616

0.7353

  1. aSummary of the effects (P values) of different factors on the alpha diversity (observed richness and Shannon index) of the oral, nasal, vaginal and milk microbiota. ***P value < 0.001; **P value < 0.01; *P value < 0.05; “.” P value < 0.1
  2. bSite effect on observed richness depends on time point: at -1W: Nasal > Oral; at 1 M: Nasal-Oral > Vaginal > Milk; at 3 M: Nasal > Oral-Vaginal > Milk; at 7 M: Nasal-Vaginal > Oral-Milk
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Animal Microbiome

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