Infant formula supplemented with low protein and high carbohydrate alters the intestinal microbiota in neonatal SD rats

Table 1 Richness and diversity indexes relative to each fecal sample (OTU cutoff of 0.03)

ID	Threshold	Number of reads	Number of OTUs	Alpha diversity
ID	Threshold	Number of reads	Number of OTUs	ACE	Chao1	Shannon	Simpson
A1	0.03	22473	235	266	263	3.87	0.0514
A2	0.03	32037	221	253	263	3.68	0.0466
A3	0.03	33278	245	261	258	3.55	0.0804
A4	0.03	39229	245	308	286	3.9	0.0392
A5	0.03	26630	223	257	254	3.62	0.062
A6	0.03	31644	161	193	202	3.23	0.0742
B1	0.03	27296	178	215	233	2.67	0.1518
B2	0.03	39824	143	218	192	1.85	0.3823
B3	0.03	35116	138	156	155	2.97	0.0862
B4	0.03	29869	153	173	176	2.45	0.2063
B5	0.03	37604	136	158	161	1.95	0.2763
B6	0.03	34103	170	200	221	2.73	0.1307
C1	0.03	44525	135	166	176	2.69	0.1097
C2	0.03	31091	134	172	165	2.2	0.2155
C3	0.03	37837	139	185	195	1.86	0.2737
C4	0.03	25521	107	140	148	2.08	0.2094
C5	0.03	41564	142	169	169	2.1	0.2695
C6	0.03	42906	93	111	108	1.87	0.291
P value		0.227	0.0000127	0.00018	0.000219	3.58E-06	0.002472

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