TABLE 2.

Values for ecological diversity indices of Shannon-Weaver and Simpson obtained by using the data of three independent ARISA experiments performed with each of the three primer sets for each environmental sample

Primer set	Diversity index value (avg ± SD) for environmental samplea
	Polluted soil		Natural soil		Brines		Insiled maize		Monument		Goat milk
	H	1 − D	H	1 − D	H	1 − D	H	1 − D	H	1 − D	H	1 − D
ITSF/ITSReub	3.48 ± 0.29	0.96 ± 0.01	4.52 ± 0.27	0.99 ± 0.01	2.50 ± 0.06	0.84 ± 0.02	2.86 ± 0.05	0.92 ± 0.01	1.85 ± 0.04	0.84 ± 0.07	2.81 ± 0.09	0.87 ± 0.01
S-D-Bact-1522-b-S-20/ L-D-Bact-132-a-A-18	3.63 ± 0.33	0.97 ± 0.01	3.24 ± 0.28	0.96 ± 0.01	1.81 ± 0.12	0.81 ± 0.01	2.49 ± 0.18	0.86 ± 0.02	1.15 ± 0.18	0.66 ± 0.06	1.02 ± 0.29	0.51 ± 0.09
1406F/23Sr	0	0	0	0	1.08 ± 0.01	0.66 ± 0.01	0.30 ± 0.52	0.18 ± 0.30	0.32 ± 0.35	0.22 ± 0.26	1.31 ± 0.24	0.72 ± 0.06

^aData were calculated from three independent ARISA experiments. H, Shannon-Weaver index; 1 − D, Simpson index.