Table 1.

Database coverage for saliva ASV queries that were ≥90% identical their nearest database neighbor by wateredBLAST, but classified at species level with confidence <0.8.

			cpnDB records per genus
Query type	No. of ASV	No. of genera	Min	Max	Median	Average
Type A	887	26	1	213	18.5	46.2
Type B	163	23	1	211	9	26.7

Type A queries were classified with confidence >0.8 at the genus rank, whereas Type B queries were classified with confidence <0.8 at genus rank.