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. 2012 Jul;12(7):648–658. doi: 10.1089/ast.2011.0694

Table 1.

Apparent Taxonomic Distribution of Metagenome Sequences

  Red mat all readsa Red mat rRNAb Green mat all readsa Green mat rRNAb
Bacteria 97.96 93.95 95.15 92.87
 Proteobacteria 76.52 70.33 36.27 36.48
 Cyanobacteria 11.24 1.61 18.19 7.30
 Firmicutes 4.31 10.9 12.91 19.24
 Bacteroidetes 3.86 3.53 9.99 7.30
 Actinobacteria 0.65 1.51 2.59 1.33
 Chloroflexi 0.45 0.1 3.75 2.16
 Planctomycetes 0.12 0 1.28 1.66
 Verrucomicrobia 0.11 0 1.75 0.33
 Chlorobi 0.1 0 1.99 0.17
Archaea 0.26 0.00 2.06 0.66
Eukaryota 1.78 6.05 2.79 6.47
 Number of reads 105,549 991 94,009 603
a

Metagenome affiliation was obtained by using the Metagenome RAST server (Meyer et al., 2008). Only the most common phyla are shown.

b

Reads identified as LSU and SSU rRNA genes.