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Table 2 Within-horse comparison of the richness of microbiota of 5 gastrointestinal compartments of 10 horses

From: Comparison of microbial populations in the small intestine, large intestine and feces of healthy horses using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

		Mean			Ranges
		Mean			Replicate 1		Replicate 2		Overall
		Replicate 1	Replicate 2	Overall	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max
duodenum	ileum	0.48	0.40	0.44	0.19	0.80	0	0.75	0.10	0.78
	cecum	0.40	0.38	0.39	0	0.80	0	0.80	0	0.80
	colon	0.52	0.18	0.35	0	0.89	0	0.40	0	0.64
	feces	0.52	0.27	0.39	0	0.91	0	0.80	0	0.85
ileum	cecum	0.44	0.40	0.42	0.25	0.67	0	0.67	0.13	0.67
	colon	0.54	0.30	0.42	0.44	0.75	0	0.57	0.22	0.66
	feces	0.58	0.43	0.50	0.15	0.77	0.33	0.50	0.24	0.63
cecum	colon	0.58	0.59	0.58	0.22	0.93	0	1	0.11	0.97
	feces	0.53	0.80	0.67	0	0.83	0.67	1	0.33	0.92
colon	feces	0.56	0.42	0.49	0	0.80	0	1	0	0.90

The numbers represent the Dice similarity coefficients (Cs) between 2 compartments averaged from 10 horses. Means and ranges are reported. Replicate 1 and 2 refer to results from 2 technical replicates. Two identical profiles create a Cs value of 1, whereas completely different profiles result in a Cs value of 0.

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