TABLE 2.
Phylotype richness and Jaccard similarity between replicate soil fungal and bacterial ARISA profiles at three different field sites using three sampling procedures
| Group and procedurea | Procedure effectb |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Sobs | Schao | Jclass | |
| Bacteria | |||
| I | 286 A | 361 A | 0.363 B |
| II | 208 B | 235 B | 0.582 A |
| III | 203 B | 250 B | 0.583 A |
| Fungi | |||
| I | 60 A | 98 A | 0.321 B |
| II | 39 B | 44 B | 0.638 A |
| III | 40 B | 42 B | 0.635 A |
a
I, no pooling; II, pooled prior to PCR; III, pooled prior to DNA extraction.
b
Reported values are the LSmean. Means with different letters are significantly different (Tukey's HSD, P < 0.05).