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Table 1.

Phylotype coverage and diversity estimation of the pyrosequencing analysis

Distance units	Reads	Coverage^a	OTUs^b	Chao1	ACE	Shannon	Evenness^c
Unique	18,206	99 %	2,403	4,904	5,340	4.09	0.525
0.03	18,206	99 %	305	372	380	3.04	0.532
0.05	18,206	99 %	143	167	183	2.35	0.474

^aThe coverage percentages (Good), richness estimators (ACE, Chao1) and diversity indices (Shannon and evenness) were calculated by Good’s method and RDP

^bThe operational taxonomic units (OTU) were defined with 0, 3 and 5 % dissimilarity using the RDP classifier

^cThe Shannon index of evenness was calculated with the formula E = H/ln(S), where H is the Shannon diversity index and S is the total number of sequences in that group