Table 2.
Comparison between 16S and RSRs from the Sargasso Sea shotgun dataset
| Phylum | Class | 16S (%)a | 5000 RSRs_ TAP (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacteroidetes | 0.5 | 1 | |
| Cyanobacteria | 5 | 10.7 | |
| Proteobacteria | 85 | 88 | |
| Alphaproteobacteria | 41 | 1.4 | |
| Betaproteobacteria | 13 | 56.6 | |
| Gammaproteobacteria | 29 | 30 | |
| Deltaproteobacteria | 1 | 0 | |
| Epsilonproteobacteria | 1 | 0 |
aData extracted from figure 6 of Venter et al. (16).