The Bacteriomes of Ileal Mucosa and Cecal Content of Broiler Chickens and Turkeys as Revealed by Metagenomic Analysis

Table 3

Comparisons of intestinal bacterial diversity between chickens and turkeys.

Source	Distance level	of OTUs shared	(lci, hci)	UniFrac distance
CD vs CM	0.03	74	0.030 (0.023, 0.038)	0.627
	0.05	76	0.052 (0.034, 0.068)
	0.20	31	0.280 (0.211, 0.350)
CD vs TD	0.03	743	0.186 (0.170, 0.202)	0.364
	0.05	758	0.332 (0.303, 0.358)
	0.20	69	0.600 (0.564, 0.630)

b: [17]
where,
is the total number of OTUs in communities A and B;
is the relative abundance of OTU in community A;
is the relative abundance of OTU in community B.