Table 4 Difference in community structure evaluated with V2-V3 and V3-V4 regions at different taxonomic ranks.

From: The effect of 16S rRNA region choice on bacterial community metabarcoding results

Taxonomic level

NMDS from Bray-Curtis distance

NMDS from Gower distance

NMDS from Jaccard distance

R2

P_value

R2

P_value

R2

P_value

phylum

0.12

0.04

0.14

0.016

0.11

0.036

class

0.35

0.001

0.28

0.001

0.35

0.001

order

0.35

0.001

0.38

0.001

0.35

0.001

family

0.42

0.001

0.39

0.001

0.43

0.001

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