Table 2.

Diversity indices, coverage, and number of reads obtained from the brines.

Brine	Reads	Observed OTUs	PD whole tree	Chao1	Shannon
B_S1	104,105	145	9.13	233.01	2.35
B_S2	118,258	231	12.25	369.88	3.45
B_S3	70,463	93	7.39	138.60	2.15
B_S4	81,981	209	11.49	290.05	2.36
B_SH1	105,197	134	8.40	205.92	2.20
B_SH2	82,886	178	10.84	288.41	1.86
B_SH3	81,123	204	10.79	274.69	3.88
B_SH4	89,714	172	10.75	247.21	2.51
B_SH5	81,475	125	7.94	177.30	1.33
B_SH6	53,489	185	11.46	260.86	3.06
B_SH7	74,380	245	13.46	377.48	3.21
B_SH8	108,209	133	8.35	236.06	2.54
B_SH9	79,524	277	15.98	392.14	2.30
B_SH10	134,390	71	6.62	129.04	0.83
B_H1	84,012	353	20.05	590.39	3.06
B_H2	89,445	379	21.78	455.27	4.25
B_H3	91,400	117	7.69	159.91	2.98
B_H4	86,367	127	8.69	174.71	2.02
B_H5	90,379	437	19.76	576.22	4.62