TABLE 3.
Relative abundance of families from all regions
Familya | Mean relative abundance ± SDb (%) |
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Great Lakes | Florida | Pacific Ocean | |
Unclassified | 20.51 ± 6.26A | 10.54 ± 3.74B | 9.48 ± 2.60B |
Planctomycetaceae | 4.04 ± 1.69A | 5.51 ± 1.65B | 7.53 ± 2.92C |
Rhodobacteraceae | 1.90 ± 0.91A | 6.05 ± 4.66B | 7.98 ± 2.71C |
Flavobacteriaceae | 1.40 ± 1.12A | 6.49 ± 4.00B | 6.77 ± 4.50B |
Desulfobacteraceae | 0.46 ± 0.48A | 6.87 ± 4.86B | 1.87 ± 1.01C |
Sinobacteraceae | 2.36 ± 1.54A | 0.61 ± 0.51B | 2.5 ± 1.51A |
Thiotrichaceae | 0.13 ± 0.09A | 0.19 ± 0.17A | 3.67 ± 2.37B |
Burkholderiales incertae sedis | 5.33 ± 2.35A | 0.07 ± 0.12B | 0.11 ± 0.20B |
Chitinophagaceae | 4.81 ± 2.28A | 0.26 ± 0.44B | 0.36 ± 0.30B |
Thioprofundum | 0.01 ± 0.06A | 0.84 ± 1.26B | 3.23 ± 1.98C |
Bacillariophyta | 0.58 ± 0.84A | 0.60 ± 0.57A | 2.92 ± 3.62B |
Desulfobulbaceae | 0.25 ± 0.25A | 3.07 ± 2.16B | 1.51 ± 0.64C |
Thermoanaerobacteraceae | 2.25 ± 1.41A | 1.46 ± 0.80B | 0.88 ± 0.36C |
Nocardioidaceae | 3.22 ± 3.37A | 0.74 ± 1.08B | 0.48 ± 1.55B |
Rhodospirillaceae | 0.61 ± 0.37A | 1.25 ± 0.92B | 1.98 ± 0.95C |
Geobacteraceae | 0.59 ± 0.31A | 0.96 ± 0.36B | 2.04 ± 0.91C |
Comamonadaceae | 3.84 ± 1.01A | 0.16 ± 0.21B | 0.13 ± 0.22B |
Sphingomonadaceae | 3.41 ± 2.98A | 0.24 ± 0.36B | 0.22 ± 0.36B |
Verrucomicrobiaceae | 1.43 ± 0.78A | 1.04 ± 0.77B | 1.15 ± 0.52B |
Syntrophobacteraceae | 0.95 ± 0.51A | 1.66 ± 2.21B | 1.19 ± 0.69A |
Chromatiaceae | 0.20 ± 0.22A | 1.77 ± 0.90B | 1.56 ± 0.54B |
Saprospiraceae | 0.32 ± 0.24A | 0.92 ± 1.01B | 1.64 ± 0.65C |
Only families present at a mean level of >1% over the entire data set are shown.
The relative abundance in samples sharing the same superscript letter (A, B, or C) do not differ significantly by ANOVA at an α value of 0.05.