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Table 1 Coverage, Shannon-Weaver and Chao1 diversity indices based on the bacterial 16S rRNA-coding sequences in the clone libraries obtained from the three maize genotypes

From: Endophytic microbial community in two transgenic maize genotypes and in their near-isogenic non-transgenic maize genotype

Clone libraries

Number of clones

Number of OTUs

Chao1

Shannon-Weaver

Coverage (%)

Control

267

32

43.7 ± 12.5

1.64 ± 0.17

0.87 ± 0.02

MON810

255

26

46 ± 29.6

1.6 ± 0.28

0.88 ± 0.05

TC1507

274

28

31.7 ± 3.3

2.18 ± 0.14

0.89 ± 0

  1. ± − standard deviation of the three values obtained (three clone libraries per genotype).
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BMC Microbiology

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