Table 3. Top 20 genera associated with the metagenomic sequences from each tick pool.
| AVf | AVm | IOf | IOm | IPf | IPm | IRf | ATn | HFfmn | HLfmn | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borrelia | (8.6) | Clavibacter | (13.4) | Rickettsia | (19.7) | Ureaplasma | (11.0) | Chlamydophila | (8.8) | Ureaplasma | (7.6) | Borrelia | (5.3) | Pseudoalteromonas | (17.2) | Chlamydophila | (10.5) | Lactobacillus | (7.1) |
| 2 | Mycoplasma | (6.2) | Pseudoalteromonas | (5.1) | Ureaplasma | (15.4) | Rickettsia | (7.3) | Streptococcus | (8.5) | Chlamydophila | (5.4) | Lactobacillus | (5.3) | Rickettsia | (10.0) | Streptococcus | (8.5) | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (5.1) |
| 3 | Staphylococcus | (4.0) | U (Euryarchaeota) | (4.7) | Mycoplasma | (8.2) | Mycoplasma | (7.1) | Helicobacter | (6.9) | Streptococcus | (5.0) | Streptococcus | (4.7) | Synechococcus | (2.1) | Chlamydia | (6.7) | Salmonella | (4.6) |
| 4 | Actinobacillus | (4.0) | Treponema | (3.6) | Clostridium | (5.8) | Clostridium | (3.1) | Chlamydia | (5.9) | Campylobacter | (4.7) | Ureaplasma | (4.3) | Wigglesworthia | (2.1) | Helicobacter | (5.5) | Grimontia | (4.3) |
| 5 | Coxiella | (4.0) | Synechococcus | (3.2) | Ehrlichia | (4.0) | Helicobacter | (3.1) | Campylobacter | (5.5) | Helicobacter | (4.4) | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (4.1) | Clostridium | (1.8) | Prochlorococcus | (4.2) | Providencia | (3.7) |
| 6 | Grimontia | (3.7) | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (3.1) | Francisella | (3.4) | Desulfovibrio | (3.1) | Prochlorococcus | (3.5) | Prochlorococcus | (3.9) | Grimontia | (3.9) | U (Alphapro-teobacteria) | (1.6) | Campylobacter | (3.5) | Coxiella | (3.4) |
| 7 | Thiocystis | (3.7) | Arcanobacterium | (2.9) | Borrelia | (2.9) | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (3.1) | Borrelia | (3.0) | Mycoplasma | (3.4) | Bacillus | (3.8) | Orientia | (1.6) | Bacillus | (3.3) | Cyanothece | (3.1) |
| 8 | Luteimonas | (3.4) | Actinobacillus | (2.7) | U (Euryarchaeota) | (2.1) | Streptococcus | (2.7) | Clostridium | (2.7) | Borrelia | (3.1) | Luteimonas | (3.0) | Bordetella | (1.5) | Clostridium | (3.0) | Streptococcus | (3.0) |
| 9 | Dichelobacter | (2.7) | Micromonospora | (2.6) | Campylobacter | (2.0) | Phytoplasma | (2.6) | Bacillus | (2.7) | Chlamydia | (3.0) | Vibrio | (2.9) | Bacillus | (1.4) | Thermoanaerobacter | (2.8) | Staphylococcus | (2.7) |
| 10 | Phytoplasma | (2.5) | Salmonella | (2.6) | Staphylococcus | (1.9) | Francisella | (2.4) | Thermoanaerobacter | (2.6) | U (Euryarchaeota) | (2.8) | Rickettsia | (2.7) | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (1.4) | Borrelia | (2.5) | Bacillus | (2.7) |
| 11 | Campylobacter | (2.4) | U (Actinobacteria) | (2.6) | Orientia | (1.9) | Borrelia | (2.3) | Sulfurihydrogenibium | (2.4) | Bacillus | (2.4) | Thiothrix | (2.5) | Amycolatopsis | (1.2) | Lactobacillus | (2.3) | Acinetobacter | (2.5) |
| 12 | U (Tenericutes) | (2.4) | Hydrogenovibrio | (2.5) | C (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (1.5) | Thiothrix | (2.2) | Francisella | (2.3) | Clostridium | (2.3) | Actinobacillus | (2.4) | Micromonospora | (1.2) | U (Euryarchaeota) | (2.2) | Mycoplasma | (2.5) |
| 13 | Lactobacillus | (2.4) | Aeromonas | (2.3) | Streptococcus | (1.4) | Ehrlichia | (1.9) | U (Euryarchaeota) | (2.0) | Thermoanaerobacter | (2.0) | Coxiella | (2.4) | Francisella | (1.2) | Sulfurihydrogenibium | (2.1) | Pseudoxanthomonas | (2.4) |
| 14 | Thiothrix | (2.1) | U (Alphapro-teobacteria) | (1.9) | Wolbachia | (1.3) | Staphylococcus | (1.6) | C (Chlamydiae) | (2.0) | Bartonella | (1.6) | Enterococcus | (2.3) | Streptococcus | (1.2) | Bartonella | (1.5) | Xenorhabdus | (2.2) |
| 15 | Salmonella | (2.1) | Streptococcus | (1.7) | Bacillus | (1.2) | Campylobacter | (1.4) | Wolbachia | (1.9) | Lactobacillus | (1.6) | Mycoplasma | (2.3) | Xanthomonas | (1.2) | C (Chlamydiae) | (1.4) | Actinobacillus | (1.9) |
| 16 | U (Euryarchaeota) | (2.0) | Hafnia | (1.6) | Buchnera | (1.2) | Lactobacillus | (1.4) | Bartonella | (1.8) | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (1.6) | Colwellia | (2.3) | Aeromonas | (1.0) | Wolbachia | (1.3) | Rickettsia | (1.9) |
| 17 | Neisseria | (2.0) | Geobacter | (1.4) | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (1.1) | Listeria | (1.4) | Sulfurimonas | (1.2) | Francisella | (1.5) | Francisella | (1.9) | Borrelia | (1.0) | U (Firmicutes) | (1.2) | Thiothrix | (1.8) |
| 18 | U (Gammapro-teobacteria) | (1.8) | Rickettsiella | (1.4) | Phytoplasma | (1.1) | C (Alphapro-teobacteria) | (1.3) | Lactobacillus | (1.2) | Sulfurihydrogenibium | (1.4) | Salmonella | (1.7) | Methylobacillus | (1.0) | C (Bacteroidetes) | (1.2) | Campylobacter | (1.7) |
| 19 | Providencia | (1.8) | Methylobacterium | (1.3) | C (Bacteroidetes) | (1.1) | U (Euryarchaeota) | (1.3) | Alkaliphilus | (1.1) | C (Chlamydiae) | (1.3) | Acinetobacter | (1.7) | Shigella | (1.0) | Cyanothece | (1.2) | Listeria | (1.5) |
| 20 | Vibrio | (1.8) | Actinoalloteichus | (1.2) | C (Tenericutes) | (1.0) | Bacillus | (1.3) | Lamprocystis | (1.1) | Phytoplasma | (1.3) | Clostridium | (1.7) | Staphylococcus | (1.0) | Sulfurimonas | (1.2) | Nostoc | (1.5) |
Numbers in parentheses indicate the percentage. U, Unclassified; C, Candidatus.