Animal Microbiome

Table 1 Differences in alpha diversity indices between gastrointestinal tract sections of calves

From: Dietary carbohydrate sources differently prime the microbial ecosystem but not the epithelial gene expression profile along the complete gut of young calves

	Reticulum	Rumen liquid	Rumen solid	Abomasum	Duodenum	Jejunum	Colon	SEM¹	P-value
Observed sOTU²	748	768	781	809	784	781	865	60.4	0.07
Shannon	4.18^bc	4.07^bc	4.23^b	4.16^bc	4.14^bc	3.87^c	4.87^a	0.21	< 0.01
InvSimpson	27.8^b	23.9^b	32.5^ab	24.9^b	24.8^b	29.7^ab	53.1^a	7.66	0.01
Fisher’s	145^b	149^b	153^ab	156^ab	150^b	147^b	178^a	15.0	0.01

¹Standard error of the mean
²Sub-operational taxonomic unit

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