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. 2015 Sep 22;81(20):7067–7077. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02032-15

TABLE 4.

Percentages of source assignments determined using SourceTracker with rarefaction to 100, 1,000, and 10,000 sequence reads

Sampling site Rarefaction size (no. of sequence reads) % of samples assigned to indicated sourcea
Cat Cattle Dog Horse Kangaroo WWTPs
BR1 100 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–12
1,000 0–4
10,000 0–3
BR2 100 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–6
1,000 1–1
10,000 1–1
BR3 100 1–13
1,000 0–2
10,000 0–2
BR4b 100c 0–1 0–1 0–2 0–1 1–2
1,000c 0–1
BR5 100 0–1 0–1 0–2
1,000 0–1
10,000 0–1
BR6 100 0–1 0–1 2–7
1,000 2–3
10,000 1–2
a

—, could not be assigned to a source.

b

No replicate had 10,000 sequence reads for analysis.

c

One replicate was excluded from analysis due to a paucity of sequence reads.