Table 3. Average diversity measurements for Drosophila and mammals.

		Global Survey	Laboratory Drosophila	D. melanogaster	Artiodactyla	Carnivora	Primates
Chao1 Richness	Average	17.13	5.86	19.06	542.68	87.31	307.20
	SD	14.75	2.66	11.52	360.89	56.47	133.76
Shannon Diversity	Average	1.38	0.84	2.03	3.94	2.18	3.59
	SD	0.77	0.52	0.51	1.08	1.10	0.73
Shannon evenness	Average	0.58	0.54	0.88	0.87	0.62	0.80
	SD	0.20	0.24	0.05	0.20	0.25	0.12

All calculations were performed using mothur [35]. OTUs were defined at the 3% divergence threshold using the average neighbor clustering algorithm. D. melanogaster data is from Corby-Harris et al., 2007 [33]. Selected mammalian orders are from Ley et al., 2008a [12]. Details regarding calculations can be found at http://www. mothur.org/wiki/Calculators.