Table 5.
Environment | Temperature (°C) | # Sequences | Unifrac P-value |
---|---|---|---|
Sewage | N/A | 6 | ≤ 0.0001 |
Cold | < 4.99 | 20 | ≤ 0.0001 |
Cool | 5–14.99 | 57 | 0.2209 |
Medium | 15–21.99 | 141 | 0.2296 |
Warm | 22–29.99 | 467 | 0.0003 |
Hot | > 30 | 3 | 0.0394 |
The Unifrac distance metric (Lozupone et al., 2006) was used for the analysis. Temperature values, when not available from the published work, were obtained from the communicating author of the paper in which the g20 sequence was first reported. All but the sequences from moderate temperatures clustered non-randomly (P< 0.05) with respect to the habitat type as defined by temperature.