Exploratory study of volatile fatty acids and the rumen-and-gut microbiota of dairy cows in a single farm, with respect to subclinical infection with bovine leukemia virus

Table 1 Comparison of microbial diversity of the uninfected and BLV-infected groups

	Diversity metric^a	Uninfected group	BLV-infected group	p-value
Rumen	Alpha diversity
Microbiota	Evenness	0.89 ± 0.04	0.89 ± 0.03	0.332
	Shannon	9.15 ± 0.62	9.25 ± 0.59	0.560
	Chao1	1395.64 ± 423.77	1408.81 ± 369.73	0.940
	Beta diversity
	Unweighted UniFrac			0.903
	Weighted UniFrac			0.532
Gut	Alpha diversity
Microbiota	Evenness	0.89 ± 0.01	0.87 ± 0.04	0.071
	Shannon	9.01 ± 0.21	8.69 ± 0.73	0.317
	Chao1	1167.94 ± 213.95	1081.47 ± 327.68	0.560
	Beta diversity
	Unweighted UniFrac			0.094
	Weighted UniFrac			0.244

^aMean ± standard deviations are shown as evenness, Shannon, or Chao1 indices
^aAlpha- and beta-diversity metrics were compared by Kruskal–Wallis test and permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA), respectively

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