Figure 3
Alpha diversity of the turkey ceca through time and as affected by BMD treatment as estimated by the Chao measure of OTU richness. The number of OTUs increased about 2-fold as the turkeys matured from day two until day 84 of the study. BMD trended to reduce species richness throughout the experiment, with statistical significance (Tukey test) as indicated. P-values were adjusted by using the false discovery rate method for multiple comparisons. *0.05 > q > 0.01; **0.01 > q > 0.001. Panel upper labels indicate days after start of BMD diets. ctrl, no antibiotic control; sub, subtherapeutic BMD dose; ther, therapeutic BMD dose.
