Table 3. Marker lipids for Nitrospira species from whole fatty acid profiles.

		16∶1 cis7	16∶1 cis11	16∶0	16∶0 11methyl
sublineage I	Candidatus Nitrospira defluviia		++ e	+
sublineage II	Nitrospira moscoviensis b		++	+	++
sublineage IV	Nitrospira marina b	++	+	++
	Enrichment Ecomares 2.1c	++	++	+
	Enrichment S11	++	++	+
	Enrichment Sh black	++	+	++
	Enrichment Sh white	+	+	++
sublineage V	Candidatus Nitrospira bockianab	+		++	++
sublingeage VI	Nitrospira calida d	+		++	++
	Enrichment Ga IId	++		++

^adata from Spieck et al. [10].

^bdata from Lipski et al. [24].

^cdata from Keuter et al. [5] .

^ddata from Lebedeva et al. [25].

^e+: marker lipids with percentage ≤20%; ++: marker lipids with >20% of whole fatty acids.