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. 2012 Dec 12;62(11):1591–1601. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2012-303184

Table 1.

Biodiversity measures of total and active microbiota

Genetic material Sample N Shannon Chao1 SD
DNA FS-0 41 3.5 46.9 5.4
FS-3 17 2.7 21.8 5.6
FS-6 21 2.8 23.0 3.8
FS-11 13 1.2 14.5 0.3
FS-14 21 3.2 21.5 1.4
FS-40 38 3.1 43.9 6.8
RNA FS-0 30 3.3 38.3 9.5
FS-3 31 3.6 38.4 7.6
FS-6 39 3,9 50.7 1.9
FS-11 32 3,3 45.1 12.0
FS-14 18 1.5 26.1 9.0
FS-40 35 3.7 47.8 13.3

The number of observed taxa (N), the biodiversity index value (Shannon) and the richness estimator (Chao1) are shown, with the SD.