Table 1. Closest 16S rRNA gene relatives of seawater-derived and “cosmopolitan” PCR-DGGE bands.
| Band id (Accession number) | RDP closest match1 (Accession number) | NCBI closest match2 (Percent similarity, accession number) |
| 5a (HE797944) | Uncultured Roseobacter sp. (AY627365) | Uncultured Rhodobacteraceae bacterium clone GG101008Clone5 (99%, JN591908) |
| 5b (HE797945) | Uncultured Roseobacter sp. (AY627365) | Uncultured Rhodobacteraceae bacterium clone GG101008Clone5 (99%, JN591908) |
| 9a (HE797955) | Uncultured Roseobacter sp. (AY627365) | Uncultured Rhodobacteraceae bacterium clone GG101008Clone5 (99%, JN591908) |
| 10a (HE797957) | Uncultured Roseobacter sp. (AY627365) | Uncultured Rhodobacteraceae bacterium clone GG101008Clone5 (100%, JN591908) |
| 10b (HE797958) | Uncultured Roseobacter sp. (AY627365) | Uncultured Rhodobacteraceae bacterium clone GG101008Clone5 (100%, JN591908) |
| 10c (HE797956) | Uncultured Roseobacter sp. (AY627365) | Uncultured Rhodobacteraceae bacterium clone GG101008Clone5 (100%, JN591908) |
1
Closest 16S rRNA gene relative using the “sequence match” tool of the Ribosomal Database Project (RDP).
2
Closest 16S rRNA gene relatives as determined by the blast-n search in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database.