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. 2000 Mar;66(3):956–965. doi: 10.1128/aem.66.3.956-965.2000

TABLE 1.

Numbers of clones analyzed and a variety of diversity indices obtained based on RFLP patterns in 16S rDNA clone libraries from Wonju groundwater and livestock wastewater

Parameter Clone library
W-3R W-3Y W-1R W-1Y LW
Total no. of clones 225 216 242 227 250
No. of RFLP patterns 38 42 127 91 111
RFLP pattern richnessa 36.9 41.3 116.8 88.2 100.6
Shannon-Weaver diversity (H)b 2.589 2.538 4.585 4.207 4.381
Evenness (e)c 0.712 0.679 0.947 0.933 0.930
Equitability (J)d 0.478 0.472 0.835 0.776 0.793
Simpson's dominance (c)e 0.147 0.152 0.014 0.021 0.018
a

Calculated by rarefaction for a standard sample size of 210 clones for each clone library (28, 34). 

b

Calculated as H = −Σ(Pi log Pi), where Pi is the proportion for each RFLP pattern. 

c

Calculated from H as follows: e = H/log S, where S is the total number of RFLP patterns. 

d

Calculated from H as follows: J = H/Hmax, where Hmax is the theoretical maximal Shannon-Weaver diversity index for the clone libraries. 

e

Calculated as c = Σ(Pi)2 where Pi is the proportion for each RFLP pattern.