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Table 2 Ecological index showing the estimated richness of the bacterial communities

From: Lessons learned from the microbial ecology resulting from different inoculation strategies for biogas production from waste products of the bioethanol/sugar industry

Reactor

Day

OTUs

Chao1

Shannon

Simpson

R3.5

0

510

(441)

590

(562)

6.35

(6.35)

0.96

(0.96)

R3.6

483

(433)

548

(545)

6.33

(6.34)

0.96

(0.96)

R3.7

588

(554)

635

(621)

6.63

(6.64)

0.97

(0.97)

R3.8

578

(545)

607

(620)

6.69

(6.71)

0.97

(0.97)

R3.5

44

437

(400)

528

(521)

6.03

(6.03)

0.96

(0.96)

R3.6

425

(412)

538

(519)

6.24

(6.24)

0.96

(0.96)

R3.7

506

(462)

632

(597)

6.52

(6.48)

0.97

(0.97)

R3.8

488

(414)

595

(502)

6.36

(6.34)

0.97

(0.97)

R3.5

113

176

(156)

200

(194)

3.80

(3.76)

0.82

(0.82)

R3.6

187

(169)

227

(209)

4.06

(4.05)

0.86

(0.86)

R3.7

216

(181)

258

(222)

4.33

(4.32)

0.90

(0.90)

R3.8

239

(226)

316

(283)

4.58

(4.58)

0.90

(0.90)

  1. Values in parentheses originated from all randomly subsampled (without replacement) libraries down to the lowest number of sequences per sample