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Table 2 Effect of late gestational HS on the richness and diversity of fecal microbiota in primiparous sows

From: Heat stress affects fecal microbial and metabolic alterations of primiparous sows during late gestation

Items

Treatments

P-value

TN

HS

n

5

6

–

Reads

43,410.00 ± 4374.00

43,626.00 ± 5035.00

0.98

OTUs

685.00 ± 51.00

730.70 ± 27.54

0.43

ACEa

756.20 ± 47.23

787.20 ± 25.29

0.56

Chao 1a

753.70 ± 46.72

797.20 ± 23.03

0.40

Shannonb

4.85 ± 0.16

4.95 ± 0.13

0.63

Simpsonb

0.02 ± 0.00

0.02 ± 0.01

0.89

  1. Data are expressed as mean with standard error of mean (SEM)
  2. aAce and Chao are the richness estimators that indicating the number of different species represented in an ecological community
  3. bShannon and Simpson are the diversity indices that estimating the diversity of an ecological community