Table 1.
OTU richness and sampling depth of pyrotag samples from GN-S and GN-I mats.
| Library | OTU richness | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Observed species | Chao1 | ACE | |
| Avg. (SD) | Avg. (SD) | ||
| GN-S 1200 DNA | 3042 | 5252 (49) | 5743 (41) |
| GN-S 1200 cDNA | 1944 | 3818 (179) | 4124 (154) |
| GN-S 2400 DNA | 3326 | 6068 (137) | 6766 (123) |
| GN-S 2400 cDNA | 1243 | 2322 (121) | 2511 (97) |
| GN-I 1200 DNA | 3417 | 6747 (180) | 7465 (189) |
| GN-I 1200 cDNA | 1404 | 2511 (105) | 2643 (88) |
| GN-I 2400 DNA | 3559 | 6679 (124) | 7285 (120) |
| GN-I 2400 cDNA | 1545 | 2840 (128) | 3016 (107) |
Average population statistics are shown with standard deviations of subsample distributions (n = 100, 11,500 sequences) in parentheses. Observed Species statistics were computed at the full sampling depth.