Table 3.

Diversity and evenness of the bacterial communities in the different gut sections of Nasutitermes corniger^a

Section	No. of genus-level taxab	No. of phylotypes		Diversity indexc
		5%	3%	Expected phylotypesd	Diversitye	Evennessf
Crop	298	351	563	1,174	3.39	0.45
Midgut	217	285	511	1,231	1.54	0.20
ms/P1	187	195	337	944	2.80	0.38
P3	264	360	653	1,626	2.42	0.31
P4	307	411	726	1,748	3.87	0.50
P5	173	167	275	494	3.77	0.57

^aThe number of taxa (hierarchical classification to genus level) is compared to the number of phylotypes (similarity-based classification, using a 3% or 5% dissimilarity threshold).

^bLowest level of classification.

^cDiversity indices are based on 3% dissimilarity.

^dChao1 estimator (14).

^eNonparametric Shannon index (15).

^fEvenness was calculated as described elsewhere (34).