Table 1.
Microbial composition of the glycerol‐degrading enrichments Gly(9) and Col‐Gly.
| Taxonomic identificationa | Relative abundance (%)b | Closest relativesc | Identity of 16S | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gly(9) | Col‐Gly | rRNA genes (%)c | ||||
| Methanothermobacter | 36.7 | 31.7 | 30.1 | 23.7 | Methanothermobacter wolfeii strain SIV6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence | 100 |
| Thermoanaerobacter | 16.9 | 20.1 | 69.8 | 76.2 | Thermoanaerobacter brockii subsp. finnii strain Ako‐1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence | 100 |
| Thermotoga | 12.0 | 12.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Pseudothermotoga profunda AZM34c06 DNA, complete genome | 98 |
| Acetomicrobium | 9.6 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Acetomicrobium mobile strain NGA 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence | 99 |
| Other taxad | 24.9 | 25.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | – | – |
a
Taxonomic identification at the genus level based on 16S rRNA genes sequences of approximately 291 bp length by Illumina MiSeq.
b
Results of duplicate samples.
c
Results of sequence alignment by using BLAST towards the NCBI nucleotide database.
d
Taxa with relative abundance < 1% and taxa with classification above the order level were included in Other taxa.