Table 2.

Overview of the number of samples and corresponding diversity indices for 16S rRNA sequences (average ± s.d.).

Sampling group		No of samples	Observed Richness	Chao diversity index estimate	Evenness	Shannon α-diversity index
A. tenuis	Control	6	307 ± 44	314 ± 47	0.81 ± 0.03	4.61 ± 0.21
	Inoculated	6	254 ± 51	256 ± 52	0.77 ± 0.04	4.27 ± 0.38
P. daedalea	Control	6	391 ± 32	401 ± 35	0.81 ± 0.02	4.83 ± 0.14
	Inoculated	6	333 ± 34	336 ± 37	0.79 ± 0.02	4.62 ± 0.16
Water	Control	6	316 ± 21	330 ± 20	0.72 ± 0.02	4.13 ± 0.12
	Inoculated	6	285 ± 20	293 ± 21	0.74 ± 0.02	4.17 ± 0.10
C. goreaui culture		1	71	69	0.67	2.86
Bacterial cocktail (7 inoculations)		7	8 ± 1	8 ± 1	0.82 ± 0.04	1.75 ± 0.05
Blank DNA extractions		6	47 ± 36	47 ± 36	0.58 ± 0.07	2.16 ± 0.36
No template PCRs		3	18 ± 7	18 ± 7	0.57 ± 0.02	1.65 ± 0.29