Table 2.
Libraries | Leaf | Root |
---|---|---|
Statistics | ||
No. of sequences | 276 | 500 |
OTUsa | 13 | 23 |
No. of singletons | 1 | 3 |
Library coverage (%)b | 99.6 | 99.4 |
Diversity indexes | ||
Chao1 | 13 | 23.6 |
ACE | 10.1 | 24.9 |
Shannon index (H′) | 2.1 | 2.3 |
Simpson index (1/D) | 6.4 | 6.4 |
OTUs were defined at 99% sequence identity.
Cx = 1 − (n/N), where nx is the number of singletons that are encouraged only once in a library and N is the total number of clones.