Table 6. Top 8 of 94 species classification results after 16S bacterial metagenome sequencing in an investigation of a mass die-off of saiga antelopes, Kazakhstan, 2015*.
| Classification | No. reads |
% Total reads |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lung (animal X) | Kidney (animal Y) | Lung (animal X) | Kidney (animal Y) | ||
| Pasteurella multocida | 25,625 | 6,907 | 44.06 | 48.32 | |
| Unclassified at species level | 21,246 | 4,990 | 36.53 | 34.91 | |
| Pasteurellaceae | 7,101 | 1,536 | 12.21 | 10.75 | |
| Pasteurella pneumotropica | 3,298 | 580 | 5.67 | 4.06 | |
| Mannheimia caviae | 462 | 78 | 0.79 | 0.55 | |
| Serratia entomophila | 50 | 17 | 0.09 | 0.12 | |
| Bacillus horneckiae | 49 | 16 | 0.08 | 0.11 | |
| Vagococcus teuberi | 39 | 13 | 0.07 | 0.09 | |
| Sporolactobacillus putidus | 50 | 0 | 0.09 | 0 | |
| Acinetobacter gerneri | 49 | 0 | 0.08 | 0 | |
| Gallibacterium melopsittaci | 39 | 0 | 0.07 | 0 | |
*Total species-level taxonomic categories identified: 94 for lung sample (animal X) and 68 for kidney sample (animal Y).