TABLE 3.
Diversity indices for clone and isolate libraries based on 16S rDNA sequencesa
| Type of data | Clone library data
|
Isolate library data
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soil (1999) | Castb (1999) | Maximumc | Soilb (1996) | Cast (1997) | Maximumc | Soilb (1996) | Burrow (1996) | Maximumc | |
| Shannon-Weaver | 4.40 | 4.11 | 4.61 | 3.65 | 2.47 | 4.30 | 3.21 | 3.21 | 3.43 |
| Evenness | 2.27 | 2.19 | 2.33 | 2.18 | 1.81 | 2.30 | 2.27 | 2.27 | 2.30 |
| Coverage | 0.14 | 0.20 | 1.00 | 0.57 | 0.80 | 1.00 | 0.32 | 0.32 | 1.00 |
a
All calculations are based on an OTU of ≥99% sequence similarity over positions 81 to 459. The sample sizes for the clone library, soil-cast isolate, and soil-burrow isolate comparisons were 95, 74, and 31, respectively.
b
The size of these libraries was randomly reduced to allow direct comparison to a smaller library. Values shown for the cast clone library are an average of 10 random reductions.
c
Maximum value for each index. The minimum values for each index were 0.