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

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Zone</td><td class="align_center">Chao1</td><td class="align_center">InvSimpson</td><td class="align_center">Shannon</td><td class="align_center">Good’s coverage (%)</td><td class="align_center">Observed richness</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Dry zone</td><td class="align_center">1,489.80</td><td class="align_center">80.69</td><td class="align_center">5.24</td><td class="align_center">98</td><td class="align_center">933</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Root zone</td><td class="align_center">2,691.12</td><td class="align_center">218.89</td><td class="align_center">6.26</td><td class="align_center">96</td><td class="align_center">1,830</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Mineralized zone</td><td class="align_center">2,610.18</td><td class="align_center">93.21</td><td class="align_center">5.89</td><td class="align_center">96</td><td class="align_center">1,715</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Effluent water</td><td class="align_center">1,421.97</td><td class="align_center">7.33</td><td class="align_center">3.21</td><td class="align_center">98</td><td class="align_center">857</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="6"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Richness and diversity indices of bacterial communities for aquaponic samples collected from three media bed zones and effluent water.</div>

International Journal of Microbiology

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Table 4: Metabarcoding Analysis of Bacterial Communities Associated with Media Grow Bed Zones in an Aquaponic System 