Metabarcoding Analysis of Bacterial Communities Associated with Media Grow Bed Zones in an Aquaponic System

Table 1

Summary of metagenomic data for the vertical zones and samples from the effluent water.

Zone/source	Number of raw sequences	Number of sequences before chimeric	Number of sequences after chimeric	Chloroplast and mitochondria sequences	Number of reads after screening and filtering
Dry zone	63,416	49,368	42,251	111	41,886
Root zone	37,446	30,263	25,893	171	23,794
Mineralized zone	29,357	23,797	18,358	125	16,761
Effluent water	26,646	22,093	20,664	2	20,242

Total raw sequences: 156,865; total number of sequences before chimeras: 125,521; total number of sequences after removal of chimeras: 107,166.