TABLE 2.
Occurrences of shared and unique sequence types within the two 16S rRNA gene clone libraries
| Clone library | No. of sequences analyzed | % (no.) of repeated sequences shared within libraries at a sequence similarity cutoff of:
|
% (no.) of singleton sequences at a sequence similarity cutoff ofa:
|
% (no.) of unique clusters at 100% similarity cutoffb | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 99% | 100% | 99% | |||
| Standard | 902 | 32.5 (293) | 80 (722) | 61.5 (555) | 13.6 (122) | 6 (54) |
| Modified | 1,082 | 48 (520) | 81 (876) | 36 (389) | 10.7 (116) | 16 (173) |
a
Singleton sequence, single sequence unique to one of the libraries.
b
Unique cluster, cluster containing more than one sequence unique to either one of the libraries.