TABLE 2.
Distribution of clones from 16S rRNA gene libraries from the contaminated site (5V, 5F, 5C, and 5S) and the control site (9V and 9S) among different bacterial phyla
| Phylogenetic group | % of clones in library
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| 5V | 5F | 5C | 5S | 9V | 9S | |
| Acidobacteria | 54 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 32 |
| Green nonsulfur bacteria | 19 | 18 | 23 | 11 | 4 | |
| Alphaproteobacteria | 11 | 39 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 9 |
| Deltaproteobacteria | 5 | 22 | 33 | 1 | 2 | |
| Clostridia | 3 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 1 | |
| Gammaproteobacteria | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Planctomycetes | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | ||
| Actinobacteria | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 9 |
| OP10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Betaproteobacteria | 34 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Bacilli | 2 | 8 | ||||
| Gemmatimonadetes | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Nitrospira | 1 | 11 | ||||
| WS3 | 3 | |||||
| WS6 | 1 | |||||
| Chlorobi | 2 | 8 | 1 | |||
| Bacteroidetes | 4 | 6 | ||||
| Spirochaetes | 11 | 8 | ||||
| OP5 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| OP8 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| OP11 | 2 | |||||
| Epsilonproteobacteria | 1 | |||||