Research Article

The Influence of DNA Extraction Procedure and Primer Set on the Bacterial Community Analysis by Pyrosequencing of Barcoded 16S rRNA Gene Amplicons

Table 5

Effect of extraction procedure and primer set on the comparative diversity indices of main bacterial genera in the ileum of pigs fed 200 mg g−1 or 3000 mg g−1 dietary ZnO1 (>0.1% of total sequence reads) ( per experimental group).

ExtractionPrimer setDatabaseRichnessShannonEvenness
200 mg g−13000 mg g−1200 mg g−13000 mg g−1200 mg g−13000 mg g−1

Procedure I16.3 (±10.6)19.9 (±9.9)0.886 (±0.546) 1.241 (±0.602) 0.329 (±0.164) 0.424 (±0.148)
Procedure II18.5 (±7.6) 27.1 (±11.0) 0.965 (±0.379) 1.144 (±0.351) 0.340 (±0.138)0.353 (±0.095)

8f-534r20.4 (±10.2)23.0 (±13.5)0.782 (±0.504) 1.019 (±0.443) 0.255 (±0.137) 0.343 (±0.106)
968f-1401r14.5 (±7.1) 24.0 (±7.9) 1.068 (±0.386) 1.366 (±0.481) 0.414 (±0.120)0.434 (±0.134)

Procedure I8f-534r18.6 (±11.4)15.3 (±9.1)0.750 (±0.578)0.973 (±0.441)0.250 (±0.150) 0.376 (±0.094)
968f-1401r14.1 (±9.5) 24.6 (±8.7) 1.021 (±0.491) 1.508 (±0.632) 0.408 (±0.140)0.472 (±0.177)

Procedure II8f-534r22.2 (±8.9) 30.8 (±12.9) 0.814 (±0.433)1.064 (±0.452)0.260 (±0.127)0.309 (±0.109)
968f-1401r14.8 (±3.5) 23.4 (±7.3) 1.115 (±0.247)1.224 (±0.188)0.420 (±0.098)0.396 (±0.053)

Different superscripts within a row (highlighted in bold) are significantly different for the respective diversity index ( ; pairwise Mann-Whitney- Test).