Table A3.

Structure and abundance of microbial communities associated with eggshells at early and late incubation.

	Band counting	Shannon index	Pielou's index	Similarity (%)	Gene copy (log)
Bacteria
Early incubation	18.5 (±0.92; 15–21)	2.8 (±0.06; 2.6–3.0)	1.0 (± <0.001)	65.8 (±2.39; 51.0–80.9)	3.6 (±0.32; 2.9–5.0)
Late incubation	16.5 (±0.5; 15–18)	2.74 (±0.02; 2.7–2.8)	1.0 (± <0.001)	75.5 (±2.11; 62.1–93.8)	6.3 (±0.18; 5.4–6.7)
Fungi
Early incubation	7.2 (±0.84; 4–11)	1.9 (±0.12; 1.3–2.4)	1.0 (± <0.001)	14.9 (±2.38; 0.0–55.1)	3.3 (±0.18; 2.6–4.5)
Late incubation	8.7 (±1.48; 2–16)	2.0 (±0.22; 0.7–2.7)	1.0 (± <0.001)	16.2 (±2.60; 0.0–54.3)	2.6 (±0.18; 2.0–3.5)

Band counting numbers, Shannon index (diversity), Pielou's index (evenness), and similarity are based on DGGE band-matching surface, and gene copy (log) (abundance) based on qPCR. Results are presented with their average (± standard deviation; minimal–maximal values).