TABLE 1.

16S rRNA gene and ITS features^a

Species	Genetic distance
	16S rRNA sequences		ITS sequences		Concatenated sequences
	p-distance	K-distance	p-distance	K-distance	p-distance	K-distance
B. adolescentis	0.0295	0.0315	0.2158	0.2712	0.1288	0.1392
B. bifidum	0.0207	0.0214	0.1726	0.2302	0.0963	0.01107
B. breve	0.0142	0.0153	0.1613	0.1718	0.1421	0.1474
B. lactis	0.0082	0.0085	0.0739	0.1027	0.0491	0.0598
B. longum	0.0049	0.0051	0.1372	0.1464	0.1185	0.1205
B. pseudocatenulatum	0.0125	0.0128	0.1039	0.1212	0.0686	0.0754
B. pseudolongum	0.0039	0.004	0.0873	0.1183	0.0553	0.0652

^aSimple mean pairwise distances (p-distance) and mean pairwise distances calculated using Kimura's two-parameter model substitution (K-distance) are provided.