. 2020 Apr 8;11:571. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00571

TABLE 3.

Coverage and alpha diversity among bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of Cistanthe longiscapa in 2017 flowering desert event at pre-flowering and full-flowering stages.

Stage	Sample number	Coverage (%)	S_obs^†	Shannon index	ACE^‡
Pre-flowering	9	98.99 ± 0.07,^A,*	1,533 ± 79^A	5.85 ± 0.1^A	1,851 ± 102^A
Full-flowering	9	99.16 ± 0.07^A	1,298 ± 79^A	5.52 ± 0.1^B	1,565 ± 102^A

^†S_obs: number of OTUs observed at 97% similarity. ^‡ACE: abundance-based coverage estimates. *The values represent least squares mean ± standard deviation from n = 9. **Sample groups sharing the same letter in each column did not vary significantly (P ≤ 0.05; Bonferroni test).