Table 1. Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) present at >1% of total sequence reads in supra-gingival plaque isolated 24 hour and 48 hours post de-scale and polish.
OTU | Species | Percentidentity | Percentcoverage | Total number ofsequence reads | Percentage of totalsequence reads |
2184 | Bergeyella zoohelcum | 99.14 | 100 | 29467 | 16.97 |
637 | Neisseria shayeganii | 98.57 | 100 | 18068 | 10.41 |
683 | Moraxella sp. COT-017 | 100 | 100 | 16167 | 9.31 |
991 | Pasteurellaceae bacterium COT-080 | 100 | 100 | 11742 | 6.76 |
2629 | Porphyromonas cangingivalis | 99.71 | 100 | 9746 | 5.61 |
613 | Neisseria weaveri | 100 | 100 | 7862 | 4.53 |
2795 | Capnocytophaga sp. COT-339 | 100 | 100 | 4951 | 2.85 |
163 | Fusobacterium sp. COT-189 | 99.14 | 100 | 4096 | 2.36 |
2083 | Pasteurella dagmatis | 100 | 100 | 3447 | 1.99 |
580* | Actinomyces sp. | 100 | 100 | 2902 | 1.67 |
1122 | Lautropia sp. COT-175 | 99.71 | 100 | 2842 | 1.64 |
1366 | Capnocytophaga cynodegmi | 100 | 100 | 2593 | 1.49 |
326 | Neisseria zoodegmatis | 99.71 | 100 | 2588 | 1.49 |
21* | Corynebacterium sp. | 100 | 100 | 2526 | 1.45 |
2160 | Stenotrophomonas sp. COT-224 | 98.58 | 100 | 1960 | 1.13 |
234 | Globicatella sp. COT-107 | 100 | 100 | 1948 | 1.12 |
226 | Capnocytophaga canimorsus | 100 | 100 | 1768 | 1.02 |
Cut-offs of 98.5% were applied for identity and coverage (alignment length divided by query length) for annotation to species level, if the alignment did not meet the cut-off criteria the best hit from the Silva database was chosen (indicated by *).