Table 1 Bacterial 16S rRNA amplicon diversity analysis of bioreactor samples treated with AgNPs.

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Untreated Bioreactor

Bioreactor 1

Bioreactor 2

Bioreactor 3

Sequences (post filtering)

40923

40336

37462

37452

Rarefraction deptha

10431

10431

10431

10431

OTUs (97% similarity)

2458

1609

1529

1544

OTUs ≥ 1%

7

15

15

15

Chao (mean ± SEMb)

1758 ± 31

999 ± 50

922 ± 35

902 ± 61

Faith’s Phylogenetic Index (mean ± SEM)

64 ± 0.8

28 ± 1.0

27 ± 0.6

26 ± 1.4

Sequence length

271–371

271–361

271–365

271–366

Base pair average

304

298

297

295

  1. aNumber of randomized sequences used to generate diversity measures reflect the lowest numbers of sequences recovered from one of the bioreactor replicates. bStandard error of the mean.