TABLE 2.
Number of taxa-to-spectrum matches (TSMs) and taxon-specific peptides (spePEPs) detected at the different taxonomical ranks in the four biofilms*.
| Taxonomy | BNW | TNW | BWW | TWW | |||||
| Rank | Taxa | # TSMs | # spePEPs | # TSMs | # spePEPs | # TSMs | # spePEPs | # TSMs | # spePEPs |
| Superkingdom | Bacteria | 1,168 | 724 | 577 | 427 | 1313 | 913 | 676 | 484 |
| Phylum | Proteobacteria | 1,136 | 580 | 572 | 326 | 1264 | 743 | 634 | 367 |
| Class | Alphaproteobacteria | 1,011 | 493 | 547 | 303 | 1205 | 703 | 551 | 316 |
| Betaproteobacteria | 171 | 55 | 42 | 9 | n.d. | n.d. | 99 | 24 | |
| Order | Sphingomonadales | 903 | 393 | 523 | 264 | 1142 | 589 | 484 | 1134 |
| Caulobacterales | 148 | 39 | 51 | 14 | 87 | 10 | 70 | 1464 | |
| Burkholderiales | 160 | 47 | 33 | 9 | n.d. | n.d. | 90 | 1178 | |
| Family | Sphingomonadaceae | 903 | 383 | 523 | 259 | 1140 | 568 | 484 | 255 |
| Caulobacteraceae | 148 | 39 | 51 | 14 | 87 | 10 | 70 | 22 | |
| Comamonadaceae | 119 | 29 | 20 | 3 | n.d. | n.d. | 52 | 13 | |
| Genus | Sphingomonas | 893 | 340 | 521 | 226 | 1131 | 497 | 478 | 214 |
| Caulobacter | 122 | 33 | 35 | 9 | 52 | 7 | 53 | 18 | |
| Acidovorax | 96 | 16 | 16 | 3 | n.d. | n.d. | 40 | 8 | |
*If a validated parent had no validated subtaxon, then the child with the maximum number of TSMs was validated as the best clade representative (gray background). n.d., not detected (below thresholds).