Table 2. Average copy numbers of recovered environmental DNA by the different pretreatment conditions

Conditions Variables AjaCOI AjaβActin Ratio COI/β-Actin
Incubation time 10 min 68,994.22 ± 14,764.21 30,741.12 ± 15,065.30 3.26 ± 2.08
30 min 167,206.37 ± 36,622.03 55,266.81 ± 21,067.47 3.67 ± 0.88
60 min 302,848.32 ± 198,425.66 60,293.16 ± 35,517.03 4.61 ± 0.46
Water temperature 18 ± 1°C 90,009.01 ± 51,119.88 16,830.75 ± 7,291.28 4.96 ± 0.89
21 ± 1°C 183,524.44 ± 59,967.08 26,828.46 ± 6,845.50 6.43 ± 0.80
24 ± 1°C 119,977.67 ± 29,757.28 39,610.02 ± 9,723.73 3.02 ± 0.27
27 ± 1°C 231,244.25 ± 40,613.00 63,745.12 ± 19,075.34 3.89 ± 0.49
30 ± 1°C 62,754.76 ± 5,339.14 19,271.36 ± 3,477.84 3.31 ± 0.32
Volume of water 1-fold 5,543,172.26 ± 4,242,047.81 336,312.71 ± 172,710.84 13.59 ± 5.64
5-fold 918,628.01 ± 282,980.04 112,278.35 ± 46,356.80 9.16 ± 2.89
10-fold 242,669.63 ± 8,892.82 38,442.42 ± 11,520.72 7.42 ± 1.95
20-fold 44,760.37 ± 13,919.24 6,527.86 ± 3,284.15 8.23 ± 1.87
Values are presented as mean ± SD.
COI, cytochrome c oxidase I.