Effects of Dietary Protein Levels on Bamei Pig Intestinal Colony Compositional Traits

Table 3

The effects of dietary protein levels on intestinal microbiota diversities in Bamei pigs.

Project	Diversity index		Richness index		Coverage
	Shannon index	Simpson index	ACE index	Chao1 index
BKCG	^c	^b	^ab	^ab	0.997
BKG1	^c	^a	^a	^a	0.997
BKG2	^c	^b	^b	^b	0.997
BMCG	^a	^a	^a	^a	0.997
BMG1	^a	^a	^a	^a	0.998
BMG2	^ab	^a	^ab	^ab	0.998
P value	0.121	0.094	0.150	0.204

Note: values in the same column with different small letter superscripts are significantly different (), while those with the same, or no, letter superscripts are significantly different ().