Table 2. (a) Significance test of Sakinaw Lake community structure differences between PhyloTags and in silico generated V4 sequences at various taxonomic levels and (b) percentage of PhyloTags and in silico generated V4 sequences classified at various taxonomic levels.

(a)
FL vs V4 16S rRNA gene sequences total community
% Identity clusters	Unweighted unifrac	P-value
90	0.30	<0.001
93	0.21	<0.001
95	0.30	<0.001
97	0.16	<0.001
98	0.20	<0.001

(b)
Taxonomic level	% FL sequences classified	% V4 sequences classified
Phylum	94.6	82.9
Class	92.9	80.7
Family	88.8	71.5
Genus	85.8	62.2
Species	74.5	49.4

Abbreviation: FL, full length.