Table 2.
Classification of wastewater treatment related systems with the MiDAS taxonomy
| Environment | Kingdom | Amplicons classified to genus levela |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novel MiDAS taxab |
Total classified |
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| % top 50 OTUs | % total reads | % top 50 OTUs | % total reads | ||
| Influent wastewater | Bacteria | 0.0 | 1.2 | 94.0 | 89.0 |
| Activated sludge | Bacteria | 30.0 | 24.4 | 88.0 | 79.3 |
| Mesophilic AD | Bacteria | 38.0 | 26.6 | 84.0 | 79.6 |
| Archaea | 12.0 | 4.3 | 88.0 | 87.0 | |
| Thermophilic AD | Bacteria | 32.0 | 28.6 | 86.0 | 80.9 |
| Archaea | 4.0 | < 1 | 84.0 | 99.8 | |
Sequences for all datasets (19) are classified with the MiDAS taxonomy v. 2.1.
a
Sequences from all plants.
b
Genus level taxa not included in the base SILVA 123 taxonomy.