In situ rumen degradation characteristics and bacterial colonization of whole cottonseed, cottonseed hull and cottonseed meal with different gossypol content

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Table 1 The α diversity of bacterial community attached to cotton by-products after an incubation of 24 h

Item^a	OTU^b numbers	Chao 1 values	Shannon index
CSH	1045^d	1233^d	7.5^d
CSM	1059^d	1251^d	7.7^d
WCS	792^e	1033^e	6.3^e
SEM^c	18.15	22.87	0.20
P-value	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01

^aCSH, cottonseed hull, including 2 samples; CSM, cottonseed meal, including 3 samples; WCS, whole cottonseed, including 3 samples; each kind of sample was incubated in 3 cows simultaneously
^bOTU, operational taxonomic units
^cSEM, standard error of the difference of the means, n = 3
^d,eValues in a column within the same class without a common superscript are significantly different (P < 0.05)