Table 2.

The relationships between diversity and the relative abundance of bacteria

	Shannon diversity index		Simpson diversity index
	ρ	p-value	ρ	p-value
vs Firmicutes	−0.5696	0.0004 **	−0.4599	0.0062 **
vs Proteobacteria	0.7635	< 0.0001 **	0.6468	< 0.0001 **
vs Bacteroidetes	−0.3744	0.0292 *	−0.2567	0.1427
vs Streptococcuceae	−0.3368	0.0515	−0.3035	0.0810
vs Veilonellaceae	−0.3517	0.0413 *	−0.2180	0.2154
vs Prevotellaceae	−0.4359	0.0100 *	−0.2656	0.1290

These OTUs had a strong impact on diversity in the lung. Spearman’s test. ρ: Spearman rank-correlation coefficient, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01