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Table 1 Summary statistics of sequences analysed including average OTU numbers detected and microbial diversity covered. For each chicken breed or line, the sequencing reads of all three primer pairs were merged and OTUs were clustered at > 97% similarity using QIIME

From: Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing

Location

Breed/line

Total sequences

Av. sequences/ sample

Av. no. OTUs

Average microbial diversity covered (% Good’s coverage)

1

Aseel

839,375

55,958

1134

94.6

Kadaknath

1,042,538

69,503

816

95.9

Cobb400

679,158

45,277

1273

94.1

2

Aseel

2,775,511

185,034

735

95.7

Kadaknath

2,548,471

164,390

833

95.6

Ross 308

2,465,845

169,898

645

97.0