TABLE 2.
Consensus rank and top BLAST genera for 18S rRNA gene sequences
| Sample | Kingdom | Phyluma | Class or subclassb | Order | Top BLAST genera (>96%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern (seasonally frozen active layer) | Viridiplantae | Magnoliophyta | Rosids | Casuarina, Flacourtia, Idesia | |
| Asterids | Pterospora, Vaccinium | ||||
| Bryophyta | Bryopsida | Aulacomnium, Palustriella | |||
| Fungi | Basidiomycota | Urediniomycetes | Uredinales | Bensingtonia | |
| Homobasidiomycetes | Boletales | Suillus | |||
| Agaricales | Cortinarius, Entoloma | ||||
| Aphyllophorales | Limnoperdon, Phlebia | ||||
| Cantarellales | Hydnum | ||||
| Stereales | Acanthophysium | ||||
| Heterobasidiomycetes | Filobasidiales | Cryptococcus, Filobasidium | |||
| Ascomycota | Leotiomycetes | Helotiales | Chalara, Cyathicula, Neobulgaria, Phialocephala | ||
| Sordariomycetes | Lecythophora | ||||
| Zygomycota | Zygomycetes | Mucorates | Umbelopsis | ||
| Mortierellales | Mortierella | ||||
| Holocene (10 ky) | Viridiplantae | Magnoliophyta | Rosids | Flacourtia | |
| Chlorophyta | Chlorophyceae | Haematococcus | |||
| Fungi | Basidiomycota | Homobasidiomycetes | Aphyllophorales | Amylocystis | |
| Heterobasidiomycetes | Filobasidiales | Cryptococcus | |||
| Cystofilobasidiales | Mrakia | ||||
| Tremellales | Cryptococcus | ||||
| Ascomycota | Dothidiomycetes | Pleosporales | Delitschia | ||
| Dothidiomycetes et Chaetotyriomycetes | Raciborskiomyces | ||||
| Sordariomycetes | Sordariales | Sordaria | |||
| Late Pleistocene (20 ky) | Viridiplantae | Magnoliophyta | Rosids | Flacourtia, Platytheca, Cneorum | |
| Liliopsida | Oryza | ||||
| Bryophyta | Polytrichopsida | Polytrichum | |||
| Chlorophyta | Trebouxiphyceae | Microthamniales | Trebouxia | ||
| Fungi | Basidiomycota | Urediniomycetes | Uredinales | Melamspora | |
| Homobasidiomycetes | Aphyllophorales | Phanerochaete | |||
| Heterobasidiomycetes | Filobasidiales | Cryptococcus | |||
| Tremellales | Cryptococcus, Bullera | ||||
| Ascomycota | Leotiomycetes | Lachnum, Stromatinia, Blumeria, Monilinia | |||
| Saccharomycetes | Candida | ||||
| Dothidiomycetes | Westerdykella, Leptosphaeria | ||||
| Sordariomycetes | Phialophora | ||||
| Dothidiomycetes et Chaetotyriomycetes | Hormonema, Raciborskiomyces, Aureobasidium, Mycosphaerella | ||||
| Eurotiomycetes | Warcupiella | ||||
| Zygomycota | Zygomycetes | Mortierellates | Mortierella | ||
| Pleistocene (300-400 ky) | Viridiplantae | Magnoliophyta | Rosids | Flacourtia | |
| Liliopsida | Poales | Oryza, Festuca, Rhynchospora, Triticum | |||
| Bryophyta | Bryopsida | Diphyscium, Cinclidium | |||
| Chlorophyta | Trebouxiphyceae | Microthamniales | Trebouxia | ||
| Prasiolales | Chlorella | ||||
| Fungi | Basidiomycota | Urediniomycetes | Sporobolomyces | ||
| Homobasidiomycetes | Agaricales | Heliocybe, Panellus, Entoloma | |||
| Heterobasidiomycetes | Cystofilobasidiales | Cryptococcus | |||
| Tremefalles | Bullera, Cryptococcus | ||||
| Ascomycota | Leotiomycetes | Cadophora, Monilinia, Stromatinia, Rhytisma, Rhexocercosporidium | |||
| Dothidiomycetes | Herpotrichia, Aureobasidium | ||||
| Sordariomycetes | Phialophora | ||||
| Chaetotyriomycetes | Exophiala | ||||
| Lecanoromycetes | Lecanorales | Cladonia, Cetraria, Pilophorus, Physcia, Umbilicaria |
a
Bryophyta is not a phylum but a nonranked taxonomic level between kingdom and class.
b
Eudicotylidon subclasses Rosids and Asterids are dominated by shrubs and trees, whereas Liliopsida comprises monocotyledonous herbs.