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. 2010 Jul 1;5(1):30–41. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.91

Table 1. Relative abundance (%) of 16S rRNA bacterial sequences in 454 pyrosequencing libraries from the wet control (W1 and W28), desiccated (D14 and D23) and reflooded (R28) sediments.

  W1
W28
D14
D23
R28
  Relative abundance (%)
Acidobacteria; acidobacteriaceae 1.6 1.9 1.3 1.4 0.6
Actinobacteria 2.3 1.2 3.5 2.6 1.0
Bacteroidetes 10.2 13.9 7.9 6.5 19.8
 Bacteroidales 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.0
 Flavobacteriales 6.5 7.5 3.7 2.9 11.0
 Sphingobacteriales 1.8 5.3 3.5 2.6 8.7
 Unclassified bacteroidetes 1.1 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.1
Chloroflexi 1.8 1.4 0.8 1.4 0.7
Deferribacteres; Deferribacterales 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0
Firmicutes 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.5
 Bacillaceae; Halobacillus 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.1
 Paenibacillaceae; Paenibacillus 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
 Clostridiaceae 0.5 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.4
Fusobacteria; Leptotrichia 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
Gemmatimonadetes; Gemmatimonadaceae 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0
Lentisphaerae; Lentisphaerae 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0
Nitrospira; Nitrospiraceae 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.3 0.3
Alphaproteobacteria 10.3 16.8 18.1 21.9 15.9
Kordiimonas 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Rhizobiales 3.0 3.9 2.3 6.6 1.1
 Rhodobacteraceae 5.4 7.1 11.9 10.9 11.1
 Rhodospirillales 0.5 1.1 0.8 1.7 0.7
Rickettsia 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0
 Sphingomonadaceae 0.5 1.1 0.5 0.1 0.7
 Unclassified Alphaproteobacteria 0.9 3.3 2.4 2.6 2.3
Betaproteobacteria 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Deltaproteobacteria 22.2 16.7 13.5 15.1 8.0
Bacteriovorax 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0
 Desulfobacterales 12.6 7.3 6.4 6.5 2.7
 Desulfovibrionaceae 0.6 2.9 0.5 0.1 0.0
 Desulfuromonales 4.3 0.1 3.5 3.3 3.0
 Myxococcales 2.2 4.5 1.8 2.8 0.6
 Syntrophobacterales 0.8 0.5 0.0 0.3 0.0
 Unclassified deltaproteobacteria 1.6 1.1 1.3 2.0 1.7
Epsilonproteobacteria; Campylobacterales 0.4 0.0 0.6 0.3 0.3
Gammaproteobacteria 30.7 31.1 35.2 34.5 39.4
 Alteromonadales (not including Marinobacter) 1.2 1.0 1.1 0.9 2.0
  Marinobacter 0.1 0.3 0.5 1.9 9.4
 Chromatiales 10.2 9.7 12.4 10.1 12.3
 Enterobacteriaceae 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0
 Legionellales 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.3
 Oceanospirillales 0.5 1.0 0.8 0.7 3.3
 Pseudomonadaceae 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.3 0.1
 Thiotrichales (not including Methylophaga) 0.6 0.3 0.7 1.7 0.5
  Methylophaga 0.0 0.5 1.6 3.3 0.7
 Unclassified gammaproteobacteria 17.3 17.0 17.7 15.1 10.7
Vibrio 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Xanthomonadaceae 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.1
Unclassified proteobacteria 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.7 3.0
Spirochaeta 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0
TM7 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Unclassified bacteria 4.8 3.4 4.7 3.6 2.4
Verrucomicrobia; Verrucomicrobiales 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.1
WS3 0.2 0.4 0.0 0.3 0.0
Cyanobacteria 0.3 1.9 0.3 0.8 0.7
Unclassified (below 90% similarity to any RDP sequence) 12.5 8.8 10.5 8.1 7.0

A total of ∼4250 sequences (850 per library) were included in the analysis.