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. 2013 Feb 21;7(7):1262–1273. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.28

Table 3. Orders of fungi and their representation.

  Order Number of OTUs Description Primary source
1 Agaricomycetes 238 Mushrooms and polypores Outdoor
2 Dothideomycetes 208 Molds Mixed
3 Tremellomycetes 111 Yeasts Mixed
4 Leotiomycetes 54 Plant pathogens and saprobes Outdoor
5 Eurotiomycetes 48 Molds Mixed
6 Sordariomycetes 39 Plant pathogens and saprobes Mixed
7 Microbotryomycetes 35 Yeasts Mixed
8 Saccharomycetes 19 Yeasts Mixed
9 Chytridiomycetes 9 Aquatic saprobes and pareasites Outdoor
10 Wallemiomycetes 8 Molds Mixed
11 Lecanoromycetes 7 Lichenized fungi Outdoor
12 Pezizomycetes 6 Mushrooms and molds Outdoor
13 Agaricostilbomycetes 5 Yeasts Outdoor
14 Glomeromycetes 3 Plant root biotrophs Outdoor
15 Taphrinomycetes 3 Plant pathogens Outdoor
16 Orbiliomycetes 2 Saprobes Outdoor
18 Cystobasidiomycetes 1 Yeasts Outdoor
19 Ambiguous 44    
20 Incertae sedis 16    
21 Unclassified 130    

The abundance of OTUs, which were identified to order by BLAST match, were summed. The representative ecology for those OTUs are given, and their proposed source, either outdoor or mixed indoor and outdoor, are also given.