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Table 1 Relative abundance comparisons of different DNA extraction methods in each dietary guild

From: Performance comparison of different microbial DNA extraction methods on bird feces

Dietary guild

Phylum

FDR

Bead vs. MoBio

Significance level

Bead vs. Qiagen

Significance level

MoBio vs. Qiagen

Significance level

Granivore

Firmicutes

0.823

ns

1.000

ns

1.000

ns

 

Proteobacteria

0.800

ns

1.000

ns

1.000

ns

 

Actinobacteria

0.977

ns

0.980

ns

1.000

ns

 

Cyanobacteria

0.937

ns

0.824

ns

0.975

ns

 

Acidobacteria

0.888

ns

0.588

ns

1.000

ns

 

Chlamydiae

0.918

ns

1.000

ns

1.000

ns

 

Gemmatimonadetes

1.000

ns

0.907

ns

1.000

ns

 

Nitrospirae

0.821

ns

0.831

ns

1.000

ns

 

Chloroflexi

1.000

ns

1.000

ns

1.000

ns

 

Tenericutes

0.740

ns

0.892

ns

1.000

ns

Omnivore

Firmicutes

0.294

ns

0.255

ns

< 0.001

***

 

Proteobacteria

0.102

ns

0.002

**

< 0.001

***

 

Cyanobacteria

0.476

ns

0.376

ns

0.338

ns

 

Acidobacteria

0.491

ns

0.718

ns

0.403

ns

 

Gemmatimonadetes

0.812

ns

0.541

ns

0.388

ns

 

Actinobacteria

0.288

ns

0.397

ns

0.506

ns

Carnivore

Proteobacteria

< 0.001

***

0.954

ns

< 0.001

***

 

Firmicutes

< 0.001

***

0.077

ns

0.001

**

 

Actinobacteria

0.680

ns

0.160

ns

0.262

ns

 

Bacteroidetes

0.141

ns

< 0.001

***

0.671

ns

 

Unclassified

0.008

**

0.161

ns

0.537

ns

 

Verrucomicrobia

0.040

*

0.068

ns

0.133

ns

 

Chloroflexi

0.040

*

0.061

ns

0.186

ns

 

Gemmatimonadetes

0.040

*

0.096

ns

0.117

ns

 

Acidobacteria

0.008

**

0.088

ns

0.137

ns

  1. Statistical significance was determined using a Student’s t-test with a Benjamini–Hochberg correction: ns: no significant difference; *: FDR < 0.05; **: FDR < 0.01; ***: FDR < 0.001