TABLE 2.
Microbial community richness and diversity indices for four samples each of degraded, normal, and high-quality FPMs
| Parameter | Value for indicated FPM type (mean ± SD)a |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Degraded | Normal | High quality | |
| No. of good-quality sequences | 14,498.75 ± 110.45 A | 13,974.75 ± 315.21 B | 14,051 ± 196.83 B |
| Coverage (%) | 96.18 ± 0.15 A | 95.10 ± 0.45 B | 94.83 ± 0.41 B |
| Observed no. of OTUs | 858.13 ± 75.87 A | 1,206.70 ± 164.85 B | 1,219.15 ± 132.25 B |
| Chao1 index | 1,711.35 ± 60.98 A | 2,127.55 ± 237.72 B | 2,227.46 ± 114.96 B |
| Shannon index | 3.54 ± 0.40 A | 6.05 ± 0.61 B | 6.45 ± 0.57 B |
a
Values with different letters (A and B) in a row indicate that they are significantly different from each other (P < 0.05). Except for the number of good-quality sequences, the parameters were calculated based on cutoffs of 0.03 and 12,799 sequences per sample.