Medium-chain fatty acid triglycerides improve feed intake and oxidative stress of finishing bulls by regulating ghrelin concentration and gastrointestinal tract microorganisms and rumen metabolites

Table 5 Effects of medium-chain fatty acid triglycerides supplementation on alpha diversity of gastrointestinal tract bacteria of finishing bulls

Alpha diversity indices	Dietary treatment^d				SEM^e	P-value
Alpha diversity indices	CON	C8	C10	C12	SEM^e	P-value
Rumen digesta
ACE	1598.27	1575.59	1807.17	1480.44	107.443	0.100
Chao1	1583.60	1561.65	1791.29	1467.60	106.676	0.101
Simpson	0.9963	0.9961	0.9966	0.9952	0.00061	0.256
Shannon	9.162^a	9.149^a	9.211^a	8.953^b	0.066	0.030
Coverage	0.9992	0.9993	0.9993	0.9993	0.00012	0.689
Rumen fluid
ACE	1570.03^bc	1745.06^a	1647.51^ab	1485.83^c	40.029	0.003
Chao1	1559.93^bc	1730.22^a	1635.17^ab	1472.76^c	40.696	0.004
Simpson	0.9972	0.9968	0.9970	0.9944	0.00132	0.213
Shannon	9.344^a	9.335^a	9.312^a	8.889^b	0.140	0.045
Coverage	0.9994	0.9991	0.9993	0.9993	0.00011	0.284
Feces
ACE	1588.49	2098.54	1581.11	1728.13	317.253	0.396
Chao1	1581.93	2089.61	1573.65	1721.08	317.524	0.400
Simpson	0.9950	0.9925	0.9948	0.9934	0.001	0.291
Shannon	8.869	8.853	8.822	8.759	0.172	0.918
Coverage	0.9997	0.9996	0.9995	0.9997	0.00009	0.497

^a⁻^cMeans bearing different superscripts in the same row differ significantly (P-value < 0.05)
^dCON the control group cattle fed control diets (n = 4); C8, the treatment group cattle fed control diets containing glycerol monocaprylin (n = 4); C10, the treatment group cattle fed control diets containing glycerol monodecanoate (n = 4); C12, the treatment group cattle fed control diets containing glycerol monolaurate (n = 4)
^eSEM standard error of the means

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