Research Article

Lean Breed Landrace Pigs Harbor Fecal Methanogens at Higher Diversity and Density than Obese Breed Erhualian Pigs

Table 3

Coverage and Shannon Index calculated using MOTHUR1 for each methanogen 16S rRNA gene clone library.

Clone libraryOTUs observedCHAO 1 OTU estimate% OTU coverage2Shannon index ± 95% confidence limitsLibshuff analysis

Erhualian881001.51 ± 0.08a
Landrace2424.299.22.38 ± 0.11b

1Schloss et al. [21].
2Good’s [22] coverage (C) according to the equation C = 1 − (n/N), where is the number of sequences represented by a single clone and N is the total number of clones in the library.
a,bThere is significant difference between these values.