Number of sequence reads, number of OTUs, and ecological indices in enzymatically- and mechanically-processed samples using different bioinformatic analysis pipelines.

E, enzymatic lysis; M, mechanical lysis.
When a significant difference (Mann-Whitney U test P<0.05) was found between mechanical and enzymatic lysis, the corresponding values are given in bold and P value is indicated in parentheses.
*The highest P value for any pairwise comparison.