Hydroxychloride trace minerals have a positive effect on growth performance, carcass quality and impact ileal and cecal microbiota in broiler chickens

Table 6 Alpha diversity parameters in the ileum and cecum (n = 12) at day 34 of the birds fed with the experimental diets (hydroxychloride trace minerals, HTM and sulphate trace minerals, STM) in high and low dosages

Gut section	Source	Level	Observed_OTUS	Shannon	Evenness	Faith_pd
Ileum	STM	High	43 ± 10^ab	2.6 ± 0.6	0.48 ± 0.09	4.0 ± 0.8^ab
	STM	Low	44 ± 9^ab	2.3 ± 0.6	0.43 ± 0.13	4.1 ± 1.2^ab
	HTM	High	50 ± 14^a	2.8 ± 0.6	0.50 ± 0.11	4.4 ± 0.9^a
	HTM	Low	39 ± 8^b	2.5 ± 0.5	0.48 ± 0.09	3.6 ± 0.7^b
P-value main effects		Source	0.8602	0.3557	0.4680	0.7085
P-value main effects		Level	0.1133	0.1440	0.4100	0.1112
Cecum	STM	High	288 ± 62	5.6 ± 0.4^b	0.69 ± 0.03	18 ± 2^b
	STM	Low	308 ± 67	5.8 ± 0.4^ab	0.70 ± 0.03	19 ± 2^ab
	HTM	High	312 ± 41	5.9 ± 0.3^ab	0.71 ± 0.03	19 ± 1^ab
	HTM	Low	327 ± 29	6.0 ± 0.2^a	0.71 ± 0.02	20 ± 1^a
P-value main effects		Source	0.3588	0.0665	0.0990	0.3025
P-value main effects		Level	0.1270	0.3325	0.7887	0.0696

^a,b Different superscripts inside of each column represents significant differences among treatments per region based on pairwise comparisons (P < 0.05). P-values below 0.1 are bolded

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