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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biodegradation. 2011 Mar 3;22(6):1061–1073. doi: 10.1007/s10532-011-9463-3

Table 2.

Percent relative abundance of abundant groupsa in 16S rRNA gene pyrosequence libraries not directly linked to PAH degradation by SIP

Phylogenetic group Monthly-fed bioreactor
Weekly-fed bioreactor
Feed soil
0 28 56 84 112 140 0 28 56 84 112 140 0 140
Acidobacteria Group 4 0.2 0.6 3.3 6.9 0.3 0.5 0.1 1.4 8.2 13.0 23.0 25.4 <0.1 <0.1
Brevundimonas 3.5 0.6 1.8 1.1 0.4 0.4 4.0 7.0 10.9 12.1 5.4 7.6 <0.1
Comamonas 0.2 0.2 0.2 <0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.2 8.3 9.5
Cupriavidus 0.1 <0.1 <0.1 0.1 0.1 <0.1 0.2 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 1.3 1.1
Diaphorobacter <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 1.0 1.4
Herminiimonas 0.9 0.1 0.1 <0.1 <0.1 0.8 0.1 <0.1 0.1 <0.1 <0.1 2.9 1.9
Parvibaculum 1.9 3.3 4.0 1.2 1.0 1.5 2.6 0.4 <0.1 <0.1 0.1 0.1
Phenylobacterium 1.8 1.1 0.6 0.6 0.3 1.0 2.8 2.4 1.7 1.6 1.3 1.5 0.1 0.1
Sediminibacterium 0.3 <0.1 <0.1 0.3 4.4 12.5 0.4 1.8 2.2 1.6 1.1 0.5
Sphingosinicella 3.6 1.7 0.6 0.3 <0.1 0.2 4.9 5.1 3.1 3.1 1.6 1.2 <0.1
Terrimonas 7.2 2.9 2.4 1.3 0.4 <0.1 7.1 0.9 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.2
Thiobacillus 4.9 4.8 7.0 6.7 3.8 7.0 4.5 7.2 6.7 6.2 6.7 4.9 0.1 0.2
Uncl. Alphaproteobacteria 4.0 3.0 2.4 2.7 1.1 2.6 4.3 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.1 2.6 0.3 0.4
Uncl. Bacteroidetes 8.7 17.5 9.7 9.3 15.8 4.7 4.5 3.8 1.3 1.5 3.3 1.3 <0.1 <0.1
Uncl. Betaproteobacteria 4.3 2.8 2.1 1.9 1.5 2.2 4.5 2.0 1.7 1.8 2.2 1.6 1.0 0.7
Uncl. Bradyrhizobiaceae 5.7 2.1 1.5 1.2 0.5 0.8 4.8 1.2 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 1.6 2.1
Uncl. Chitinophagaceae 3.0 2.2 2.5 2.3 2.0 1.0 2.7 1.2 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.2 <0.1
Uncl. Comamonadaceae 1.7 2.4 3.0 2.5 1.5 2.0 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.9 2.4 2.4 0.9 1.5
Uncl. Erythrobacteraceae 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 2.6 6.2
Uncl. Gammaproteobacteriab 5.0 13.0 4.1 2.8 32.7 3.7 3.2 2.8 2.6 2.3 2.6 2.4 0.3 0.3
Uncl. Rhizobiales 5.9 3.0 3.7 4.1 3.4 4.0 6.6 4.6 3.9 3.8 3.4 4.1 0.3 0.4
Uncl. Sphingomonadaceae 3.3 3.3 4.5 6.0 1.8 5.2 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.2 3.6 4.4 6.4 4.9
Uncl. Sphingomonadales 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.9 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.5 1.6 4.0
Uncl. Xanthomonadaceae 0.3 0.1 0.8 1.6 2.7 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.4 <0.1 0.2 2.8 2.4
Percentage of library 67.1 65.4 55.1 53.8 74.3 51.5 66.0 52.0 53.1 58.4 60.6 61.9 31.4 37.0

Uncl Unclassified; all other abbreviations and notations as in Table 1

a

Groups shown represented at least 1% of the sequences in at least one of the pyrosequence libraries

b

Values do not include sequences associated with ‘‘Pyrene Group 2’’ (Table 1)