Table 1.
Actinobacterial diversity within the V6 (Sogin et al. 2006) dataset
| Sample | Depth (m) | Actinobactial sequences (% total) | OTU singletons | OTU clusters | Max seq/cluster (% total) | OTUs total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53R | 1400 | 97 (2.8) | 4 | 3 | 89 (91.8) | 7 |
| 55R | 500 | 198 (1.9) | 9 | 9 | 139 (70.2) | 18 |
| 112R | 4121 | 692 (14.5) | 6 | 6 | 637 (92.1) | 12 |
| 115R | 550 | 380 (4.9) | 5 | 8 | 351 (92.4) | 13 |
| 137 | 1710 | 354 (3.5) | 9 | 20 | 221 (62.4) | 29 |
| 138 | 710 | 347 (3.3) | 11 | 11 | 254 (73.32) | 22 |
| FS312 | 1529 | 17 (0.5) | 3 | 3 | 9 (52.9) | 6 |
| FS396 | 1537 | 60 (0.5) | 6 | 4 | 48 (80) | 10 |
| Total | 2145 | 53 | 64 | 117 |
Sequence tags were delineated into OTUs using the program Clusterer and the number of OTUs represented by single sequences (singletons) and groups of sequences (clusters) indicated along with the maximum number of sequences in any one cluster