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We identified AM fungi in root samples by sequencing amplicons of the SSU rRNA gene with 454 and Illumina MiSeq paired-end sequencing. In addition, we sequenced metagenomic DNA without prior PCR amplification. Amplicon-based Illumina sequencing yielded two orders of magnitude higher sequencing depth per sample than 454 sequencing. Initial analysis with minimal quality control recorded five times higher AM fungal richness per sample with Illumina sequencing. Additional quality control of Illumina samples, including restriction of the marker region to the most variable amplicon fragment, revealed AM fungal richness values close to those produced by 454 sequencing. Furthermore, AM fungal richness estimates were not correlated with sequencing depth between 300 and 30,000 reads per sample, suggesting that the lower end of this range is sufficient for adequate description of AM fungal communities. By contrast, metagenomic Illumina sequencing yielded very few AM fungal reads and taxa and was dominated by plant DNA, suggesting that AM fungal DNA is present at prohibitively low abundance in colonised root samples. 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