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Table 1 Quantitative PCR and fungal population diversity index based on the 454 pyrosequencing data from sediments samples from the JP, SBY, and ZC reservoirs

From: Ignored sediment fungal populations in water supply reservoirs are revealed by quantitative PCR and 454 pyrosequencing

Reservoirs

Fungal 18S rRNA gene copies per gram sediment *

Abundance-based coverage estimators (ace)

Shannon’s diversity ( H )

Simpson diversity ( D )

Chao 1 diversity

Coverage

ZC reservoir

1991 ± 58 B

307

1.25

0.50

328

0.975

SBY reservoir

2473 ± 102AB

190

0.96

0.57

170

0.994

JP reservoir

2610 ± 89A

967

4.52

0.05

962

0.993

  1. *The data shown are the means (n = 3). The same letter (A or B) indicates no significant difference by Tukey-Kramer HSD (P < 0.01).