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. 2018 Jul 16;6:e5257. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5257

Table 4. Similarity indices among replicates within a kit and between kits.

Level	Data size*	Similarity index
Level	Data size*	Jaccard	Sorensen	Bray–Curtis
Ba	3	0.4560 ± 0.0115^a	0.6263 ± 0.0110^a	0.9023 ± 0.0090^a
Mo	3	0.2837 ± 0.0794^b	0.4377 ± 0.0943^b	0.8553 ± 0.0558^ab
St	3	0.3767 ± 0.0688^ab	0.5447 ± 0.0706^ab	0.9022 ± 0.0196^a
Ti	3	0.3550 ± 0.236^ab	0.5240 ± 0.0256^ab	0.7960 ± 0.7960^b
Ba–Mo	9	0.3527 ± 0.0661^ab	0.5181 ± 0.0751^ab	0.8562 ± 0.0377^a
Ba–St	9	0.3167 ± 0.0566^bc	0.4783 ± 0.0667^bc	0.3190 ± 0.0448^c
Ba–Ti	9	0.3704 ± 0.0252^a	0.5401 ± 0.0267^a	0.5536 ± 0.0456^b
Mo–St	9	0.2787 ± 0.0491^c	0.4334 ± 0.0601^c	0.3084 ± 0.0456^c
Mo–Ti	9	0.3136 ± 0.0388^bc	0.4761 ± 0.0450^bc	0.5489 ± 0.0448^b
St–Ti	9	0.3050 ± 0.0454^bc	0.4659 ± 0.0545^bc	0.2996 ± 0.0384^c

Notes:

Means with different superscripts in the same column are significantly different (P < 0.05).

^*

Indicates the number of replicates of each kit or of data points of the pairwise comparisons within the technical replicates of any two kits.