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Ranges of 16S rRNA identity percentages for the identified MAPD isolates vs. known species. Two third of the MAPD isolates (< 98.65% 16S rRNA identities) likely represent novel species. Indeed, 97% is the commonly accepted threshold percentage at which two species can be distinguished and 98.65% is the threshold proposed by Kim et al. (2014) which have compared the average nucleotide identities of almost 7000 prokaryotic genomes and their 16S rRNA gene identities.
