Table 5.

Near full-length 16S rRNA gene similarity matrix for ESFC-1, the two most-closely related cyanobacteria Spirulina spp. PCC 6313 and PCC 9445 (based on the phylogeny in Fig. 2), and the highest-scoring BLAST hit from the NCBI database (Aphanocapsa sp. HBC6, accession EU249123)

	% Identities
Sequence	ESFC-1 01	ESFC-1 02	PCC 9445	PCC 6313 01	PCC 6313 02	EU249123
ESFC-1 01	1	0.984	0.899	0.905	0.906	0.923
ESFC-1 02		1	0.911	0.917	0.919	0.935
PCC 9445			1	0.915	0.916	0.913
PCC 6313 01				1	0.998	0.922
PCC 6313 02					1	0.923
EU249123						1