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Table 3 Diversity indices and richness estimators of the 16rRNA gene libraries in milk microbiota of dairy cows in different treatments

From: Impact of yeast and lactic acid bacteria on mastitis and milk microbiota composition of dairy cows

Items	Treatments					SEM	P-value
Items	H	M	M + Y	M + L	M + Y + L	SEM	P-value
Sequence	49,642	47,709	46,315	40,192	44,501	2216	0.13
Shannon	2.65	2.41	2.18	2.53	2.73	0.40	0.70
Simpson	0.21	0.19	0.28	0.20	0.16	0.07	0.56
Ace	451.51^a	305.84^b	491.65^a	509.69^a	450.84^a	57.34	0.02
Chao	430.36^a	277.60^b	452.25^a	472.63^a	445.92^a	59.08	0.03
Coverage	0.998	0.997	0.997	0.998	0.998	0.00	0.14

Shannon and Simpson indices are used to assess biodiversity of milk microbiota
Ace and Chao indices are used to assess the microbiotal richness
Coverage index are used to reflect species coverage
^abcMeans in the same row with significant difference (P < 0.05)

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