Table 1.
Taxonomic classification of 16S rRNA genes from each river collected June 7–17, 2004
| Phylum or class | KL | YE | YU | OB | MA | LE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacteroidetes | 42 | 28 | 18 | 25 | 31 | 22 |
| Betaproteobacteria | 16 | 27 | 23 | 16 | 16 | 30 |
| Actinobacteria | 9 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 12 |
| Alphaproteobacteria | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | ||
| Verrucomicrobia | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Acidobacteria | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Gammaproteobacteria | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Deltaproteobacteria | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Chloroflexi | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Nitrospira | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Firmicutes | 1 | |||||
| Unclassified Proteobacteria | 1 | |||||
| Cyanobacteria | 1 | |||||
| OP10 | 1 | |||||
| Unclassified bacteria | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total clone sequences | 82 | 80 | 79 | 71 | 77 | 68 |