TABLE 3.

Number of reads, observed diversity, and estimated sample coverage for 16S rRNA amplicons analyzed in this study^a

Rennet sample no.	No. of reads	No. of OTUs	Chao1 index	Shannon index	ESC (%)
1	3,308	155	464.79	2.79	97
2	3,530	249	586.53	3.27	96
3	3,119	312	803.05	3.73	93
4	3,150	496	1491.51	5.19	89
5	4,366	411	979.47	3.89	94
6	2,272	588	1767.95	6.21	81
7	3,391	481	1702.50	4.80	90
8	3,298	457	1465.06	4.20	90
9	1,118	259	630.34	4.70	84
10	3,056	376	1110.27	4.02	91
11	1,989	121	382.07	2.63	96

^aAbbreviations: OTU, operational taxonomic unit; ESC, estimated sample coverage. Chao1, Shannon, and ESC were calculated with QIIME at the 3% distance level. More details on bioinformatics analysis are given in Materials and Methods.