Table 2. The 25-most abundant fungal taxa in all airborne samples identified by the top BLAST match.
| OTU rank | BLAST-assigned taxonomy | Length (bp) | % Sequence similarity |
Frequency |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indoor | Outdoor | Total | ||||
| 1 | Cryptococcus victoriae | 131 | 99.2 | 94.0 (63/67) | 100 (17/17) | 80 |
| 2 | Cladosporium sp. | 84 | 98.8 | 91.0 (61/67) | 100 (17/17) | 78 |
| 3 | Epicoccum sp. | 156 | 93.6 | 88.1 (59/67) | 100 (17/17) | 76 |
| 4 | Penicillium sp. | 36 | 97.2 | 89.6 (60/67) | 94.1 (16/17) | 76 |
| 5 | Cryptoccocus sp. | 155 | 96.8 | 88.1 (59/67) | 100 (17/17) | 76 |
| 6 | Cladosporium sp. | 70 | 98.6 | 80.6 (54/67) | 100 (17/17) | 71 |
| 7 | Epicoccum sp. | 30 | 100 | 79.1 (53/67) | 100 (17/17) | 70 |
| 8 | none | 103 | — | 76.1 (51/67) | 100 (17/17) | 68 |
| 9 | Aureobasidum pullulans | 51 | 100 | 74.6 (50/67) | 100 (17/17) | 67 |
| 10 | Alternaria sp. | 171 | 99.4 | 71.6 (48/67) | 100 (17/17) | 65 |
| 11 | Cladosporium sp. | 87 | 95.4 | 70.1 (47/67) | 100 (17/17) | 64 |
| 12 | Phoma sp. | 143 | 91.6 | 58.2 (39/67) | 100 (17/17) | 56 |
| 13 | Epicoccum sp. | 156 | 93.6 | 56.7 (38/67) | 100 (17/17) | 55 |
| 14 | Cladosporium sp. | 90 | 98.9 | 56.7 (38/67) | 100 (17/17) | 55 |
| 15 | Stemphylium sp. | 96 | 96.9 | 55.2 (37/67) | 100 (17/17) | 54 |
| 16 | Cladosporium sp. | 85 | 100 | 53.7 (36/67) | 100 (17/17) | 53 |
| 17 | Cryptoccocus carnescens | 132 | 100 | 50.7 (34/67) | 100 (17/17) | 51 |
| 18 | Penicillium brevicompactum | 182 | 98.9 | 58.2 (39/67) | 70.6 (12/17) | 51 |
| 19 | none | 80 | — | 49.3 (33/67) | 94.1 (16/17) | 49 |
| 20 | Sporobolomyces sp. | 149 | 95 | 47.8 (32/67) | 94.1 (16/17) | 48 |
| 21 | Epicoccum sp. | 34 | 100.0 | 50.7 (34/67) | 82.4 (14/17) | 48 |
| 22 | Stemphylium sp. | 120 | 90.0 | 46.3 (31/67) | 94.1 (16/17) | 47 |
| 23 | Aspergillus sp. | 91 | 97.8 | 47.8 (32/67) | 64.7 (11/17) | 43 |
| 24 | Aureobasidum pullulans | 167 | 98.2 | 41.8 (28/67) | 88.2 (15/17) | 43 |
| 25 | Rhodotorula mucilaginosa | 148 | 96.0 | 50.7 (34/67) | 52.9 (9/17) | 43 |
Frequency of the taxon in indoor and outdoor samples is given as percentage followed by proportion of samples, followed by the total number in all samples. Seasons are pooled, and the maximum number of samples is 84.