Table 2.
Effective DNA sequences, OTUs (Operational taxonomic units), ACE (abundance-based coverage estimator), Chao 1 (species richness estimator), Shannon (diversity index) and GOOD’s coverage (percent of total species represented in the samples) of samples
| Sample code | Effective reads | 2,700 effective reads/sample (3% cut-off) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OTUs | ACE | Chao 1 | Shannon | GOOD’s coverage | |||
| Blank group | 10 days | 3,975 | 794 | 3,239.3 | 1,964.1 | 5.49 | 81% |
| 25 days | 5,392 | 780 | 2,898.1 | 1,722.2 | 5.61 | 82% | |
| 50 days | 3,469 | 611 | 1,488.0 | 1,152.0 | 5.43 | 88% | |
| H group | 10 days | 2,941 | 461 | 902.7 | 722.4 | 5.01 | 92% |
| 25 days | 3,074 | 499 | 1,247.8 | 878.5 | 4.83 | 91% | |
| 50 days | 4,852 | 617 | 1,990.8 | 1,209.8 | 5.15 | 87% | |