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. 2016 Apr 18;82(9):2751–2762. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00247-16

TABLE 3.

Relative abundance of families from all regions

Familya Mean relative abundance ± SDb (%)
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
a

Only families present at a mean level of >1% over the entire data set are shown.

b

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.