TABLE 2.

Comparison of microbial biodiversity of samples 3 and 4 as detected by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and cultivation.

	Sample 3		Sample 4
	Amplicons	Isolates	Amplicons	Isolates
Reads/isolates	29,950	1,475	41,609	1,102
No. OTUs/species	555	112	535	125
No. families	87	33	83	41
No. families in common	28		36
No. genera	162	47	166	60
No. genera in common	34		46
No. genera with relative abundance ≥1% (% of reads or isolates)	20 (52.6)	14 (91.2)	17 (65.9)	21 (90.7)
No. OTUs/species with relative abundance ≥1% (% of reads or isolates)	18 (39.5)	22 (80.8)	19 (55.8)	23 (77.2)
Shannon Index	5.78	3.47	4.54	3.70
Simpson Index	0.999	0.94	0.999	0.95