AIC	Akaike Information Criterion
ANOVA	Analysis of Variance
DGGE	Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
NGS	Next Generation Sequencing
NSTI	Nearest Sequenced Taxon Index
NTSYS-PC	Numerical Taxonomy and Multivariate Analysis
OTU	Operational Taxonomic Unit
PCoA	Principal Coordinate Analysis
PD	Phylogenetic Diversity
PICRUSt	Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States
QIIME	Quantitative Insight into Microbial Ecology
RDP	Ribosomal Database Project
uwU	Unweighted UniFrac
wU	Weighted UniFrac