The community structure and microbial linkage of rumen protozoa and methanogens in response to the addition of tea seed saponins in the diet of beef cattle

Table 3 Effect of tea seed saponins (TSS) supplementation on OTU richness and alpha diversity of methanogen at 97% similarity

Treatment	BD	TSS	BDP	SEM	ANOVA_P
Observed OTUs	447	490	443	12	0.167
Shannon-Wiener	2.13	2.40	2.45	0.10	0.391
Simpson’s	0.36	0.31	0.31	0.02	0.691
Chao 1	1251	1335	1175	48	0.421
Ace	1761	2073	1672	78	0.083
Good’s coverage, %	98.28	97.05	96.81	0.23	0.211

Within the same row, values with different letters were significantly different (FDR-P < 0.05)
ANOVA_P values were the overall significant differences analyzed using one-way analysis of variance for the normally distributed data
BD Basal Diet, BDP Post-control period, SEM Standard error of the mean

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