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. 2008 Aug 5;36(16):5180–5188. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn496

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).