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. 2011 Jan 25;3:195–208. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evr002

Table 1.

Selective WGA Enriched for Serratia symbiotica DNA from a Mixed Sample

Absolute Number of Genic Copies in Sample
DNA Composition from qPCR
S. symbiotica dnaK S. symbiotica gyrB Buchnera dnaK A. pisum hsp70 A. pisum EF-1α S. symbiotica Average (%) Buchnera (%) A. pisum Average (%)
Tucson genotype aphid DNA 136,800 NA 4,655,000 91,780 NA 0.8 6 93
Filtered Tucson aphid DNA 205,800 NA 2,485,000 1,338 NA 22 53 25
Selectively amplified Tucson DNA 807,500 NA 500,500 445.6 NA 82 10 8
Single read 454 library 788,500 7,499,000 474,000 5,91.9 613.9 95 2 2
Paired read 454 library 618,100 7,847,000 449,200 329.7 806.7 96 2 2
Paired read Illumina library 698,300 5,743,000 787,500 809.3 1,185 91 4 5

Note.—DNA composition was estimated using single gene copy numbers and an estimated genome size of 3 Mb for S. symbiotica. The Buchnera and Acyrthosiphon pisum genomes are 0.6 and 517 Mb in size, respectively (Shigenobu et al. 2000; International Aphid Genomics Consortium 2010).