Table 1.
Dynamics in alpha diversity during soil microbe assembly. Comparison of bacterial and fungal species richness, Shannon diversity, and abundance between different soil microbiomes relative to each other for the three tested compartments soil, phyllosphere, and aphids. Abundance based on log10 transformed qPCR reads of 16S rRNA (bacteria) and ITS (fungi) gene read counts. Rank position (1 = high, 2 = medium, 3 = low) of richness, Shannon diversity and abundance values compared between corresponding compartments (rows). Compartments where phyllosphere and aphid samples show similar ranks are highlighted in bold
| Bacteria | Fungi | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soil microbiome type | Clayey | Mixed | Sandy | Clayey | Mixed | Sandy | ||
| Species richness | ⇓ | Soil (rank) | 581.6 (3) | 742.8 (1) | 644 (2) | 33.5 (3) | 78.7 (1) | 72.9 (2) |
| Phyllosphere (rank) | 5.83 (3) | 6.25 (2) | 8.79 (1) | 23.26 (1) | 22.53 (2) | 18.03 (3) | ||
| Aphids (rank) | 159.78 (2) | 158.00 (3) | 226.39 (1) | 69.92 (2) | 78.06 (1) | 45.29 (3) | ||
| Shannon diversity | ⇓ | Soil (rank) | 5.62 (2) | 5.95 (1) | 5.41 (3) | 0.97 (3) | 1.77 (1) | 1.42 (2) |
| Phyllosphere (rank) | 1.17 (2) | 1.07 (3) | 1.50 (1) | 1.70 (1) | 1.63 (2) | 1.58 (3) | ||
| Aphids (rank) | 1.29 (1) | 1.15 (3) | 1.15 (2) | 2.06 (1) | 1.80 (2) | 1.71 (3) | ||
| Abundance | ⇓ | soil (rank) | 8.06 (2) | 8.17 (1) | 8.05 (3) | 5.49 (2) | 5.69 (1) | 5.18 (3) |
| Phyllosphere (rank) | 4.18 (2) | 4.17 (3) | 4.30 (1) | 8.15 (1) | 7.74 (3) | 8.07 (2) | ||
| Aphids (rank) | 4.11 (2) | 3.87 (3) | 4.66 (1) | 3.23 (3) | 3.52 (2) | 4.92 (1) | ||