Table 3. Number of putative MOTUs at the species and genera levels characterizing the two honey samples.

Data are presented for each dataset, considering three different thresholds of sequence identity (<75%, that means without any threshold; ≥ 75%; ≥ 97%).

Honey		Orange tree blossom honey						Eucalyptus tree blossom honey
Sequence identity		< 75%		≥ 75%		≥ 97%		< 75%		≥ 75%		≥ 97%
Dataset†	Level	N. of reads	N. of MOTUs	N. of reads	N. of MOTUs	N. of reads	N. of MOTUs	N. of reads	N. of MOTUs	N. of reads	N. of MOTUs	N. of reads	N. of MOTUs
Arthropods	Species	96	23	96	23	53	7	2500	58	2497	56	1620	20
	Genus	104	21	104	21	58	7	2709	42	2706	40	1793	11
Plants	Species	442	98	442	98	141	38	579	89	578	88	165	36
	Genus	538	86	538	86	209	38	614	74	613	73	191	32
Fungi	Species	129	42	129	42	49	13	1497	101	1495	101	467	40
	Genus	180	33	180	33	59	12	2747	54	2746	54	958	23
Bacteria	Species	17465	688	17452	683	2514	121	78332	846	78199	834	36648	229
	Genus	19867	280	19843	278	2834	65	83343	321	83192	318	37939	92
Viruses	Species	248139	4	248139	4	188360	3	172260	14	172258	14	99540	4
	Genus1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

^† Data are not reported for viruses since the genus level is missing for some of them, leading to unreliable statistics.