Table 2. Summary of metrics for clusters obtained by weighted unifrac hierarchical analysis.
| Cluster | Sequences | OTUs | H' | J' | Chao1 | Coverage | Characteristics |
| I | 20752.1 (4284.6) a | 1297.5** (584.4) |
5.25*** (0.6) |
0.75*** (0.07) |
1901.6** (843) |
93.4** (3.5) |
Healthy, high richness, high diversity |
| IIa | 27010.7 (15756.5) | 523 (160.7) | 1.63 (0.7) | 0.26 (0.11) | 776.6 (127.5) | 99.3 (0.3) |
Endometritis, low richness, low diversity |
| IIb | 24998 (6137.7) | 319.5 (21.9) | 3.23 (0.04) | 0.56 (0.01) | 429.8 (35.6) | 99.7 (0.1) |
Endometritis, low richness, high diversity |
| III | 26652.4 (6177.1) | 435.4 (325.3) |
2.28 (1.18) |
0.38 (0.16) |
755.9 (491) |
98.3 (1.5) |
Endometritis, low richness, low diversity |
| IV | 25780.5 (9975.2) | 985.5* (99.7) |
1.66 (0.51) |
0.24 (0.08) |
1413.6* (270.8) |
95.9* (1.2) |
Healthy, high richness, low diversity |
a Standard deviations are given in brackets
* P < 0.05;
** P < 0.01;
*** P < 0.0001 indicate significantly different as compared to the same metric of non-starred clusters.