Microbial community profiles of the colon from steers differing in feed efficiency

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Table 1 Diversity statistics among reads from grouped samples

Feed efficiency group	Sampling type	No. of sequences	No. of OTUs^a,b	Chao1^b	Shannon diversity index^b	Equitability^b	Good’s coverage (%)
ADG_high–ADFI ^c_high	Subsampled reads^d	100,000	5,764 ± 878	9,638 ± 2,004	7.85 ± 0.52	0.58 ± 0.02	97.13 ± 0.59
ADG_high–ADFI ^c_low	Subsampled reads^d	100,000	6,098 ± 1,028	9,874 ± 1,853	8.15 ± 0.39	0.60 ± 0.02	97.02 ± 0.60
ADG_low–ADFI ^c_low	Subsampled reads^d	100,000	6,714 ± 1,148	11,538 ± 2,333	8.27 ± 0.49	0.60 ± 0.03	96.53 ± 0.71
ADG_low–ADFI ^c_high	Subsampled reads^d	100,000	6,063 ± 1,129	10,052 ± 2,003	7.92 ± 0.74	0.59 ± 0.02	96.99 ± 0.61

^aOTUs represents operational taxonomic units.
^bWithin a column, means for the individual subsamples did not differ (P < 0.05).
^c n = 8 among groups.
^dMeans among the groups were compared using ANOVA and the Tukey’s test.