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. 2014 Oct 31;9(10):e111744. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111744

Table 2. Comparison of the estimated operational taxonomic unit (OTU) richness, diversity indexes and Pielous evenness of the 16S rRNA gene libraries for clustering at 97% identity as obtained from the pyrosequencing analysis.

Treatments Observed OTUs Shanon Chao1 Pielous evenness (%)
RePlant 4328.1a 10.53a 9010.8a 87.17a
NewPlant 4509.9a 10.67a 9942.7ab 88.09a
ReSoil 5125.8b 11.02b 11371.8c 89.45a
NewSoil 5176.9b 11.12b 10614.9bc 88.53a

Averages of replicates ± standard error; means followed by different letters are significantly different at P<0.05.