TABLE 2.
Phylogenetic distribution of 34,753 oral clones
| Phylum | No. of taxa (%) | % of taxa that represent: |
No. of clones (%) | % of clones that represent: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named species | Unnamed isolates | Uncultivated phylotypes | Named species | Unnamed isolates | Uncultivated Phylotypes | |||
| Firmicutes | 494 (41.9) | 20.6 | 8.7 | 70.6 | 23,354 (67.212) | 78.7 | 7.3 | 14.1 |
| Proteobacteria | 237 (20.1) | 33.3 | 3.0 | 63.7 | 3,909 (11.250) | 72.7 | 3.8 | 23.6 |
| Bacteroidetes | 153 (13.0) | 19.0 | 16.3 | 64.7 | 2,571 (7.403) | 58.6 | 24.1 | 17.3 |
| Actinobacteria | 133 (11.3) | 35.3 | 14.3 | 50.4 | 2,641 (7.572) | 55.7 | 20.3 | 24.0 |
| Spirochaetes | 73 (6.2) | 9.6 | 2.7 | 87.7 | 577 (1.671) | 33.8 | 4.3 | 61.9 |
| Fusobacteria | 42 (3.6) | 23.8 | 7.1 | 69.0 | 1,356 (3.893) | 76.6 | 4.0 | 19.4 |
| Synergistetes | 18 (1.5) | 11.1 | 0.0 | 88.9 | 209 (0.605) | 12.4 | 0.0 | 87.6 |
| TM7 | 15 (1.2) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 85 (0.244) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| Tenericutes | 4 (0.3) | 75.0 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 10 (0.028) | 90.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 |
| Deinococcus | 3 (0.2) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 13 (0.037) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| SR1 | 1 (0.1) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 7 (0.020) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| Chloroflexi | 1 (0.1) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 1 (0.003) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| Acidobacteria | 1 (0.1) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 1 (0.003) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| Cyanobacteria | 1 (0.1) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 1 (0.003) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| Plant chloroplast | 4 (0.3) | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19 (0.054) | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.00 |
| Total | 1,179 (100) | 24.0 | 8.4 | 67.7 | 34,753 (100.000) | 73.3 | 8.8 | 17.8 |