TABLE 4.
Bacterial diversity at the genus level among the various sampling sites of salterns of Siridao.
| Sampling Sites | Sediment |
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| Genus | Relative abundance in percent | Genus | Relative abundance in percent | |
| ISH – RP | Uncultured Chitinophagaceae | 18.6% | Halomonas | 25.8% |
| Delsulfovermiculus | 12.9% | Planctomyces | 4.8% | |
| Rubricoccus | 5.6% | Uncultured Clostridiaceae | 4.3% | |
| Uncultured Xanthomonadales | 5.1% | Fulvivirga | 3% | |
| Bacillus | 3.9% | Gracilimonas | 3% | |
| Acidothermus | 2.7% | ML602J-37 | 3% | |
| Dialister | 2.3% | Salegentibacter | 2.5% | |
| Uncultured Acidobacteriaceae | 2.1% | Marinicella | 2.2% | |
| Uncultured Anaerolineaceae | 2.1% | Alcanivorax | 1.8% | |
| Thioalkalispira | 1.8% | Uncultured Deferribacterales | 1.8% | |
| Halomonas | 1.6% | Uncultured Xanthomonadaceae | 1.5% | |
| ML602J-37 | 1.6% | Idiomarina | 1.6% | |
| Truepera | 1.2% | |||
| Methylophaga | 1.1% | |||
| ISH – EP | Uncultured Chitinophagaceae | 28.9% | Bacillus | 21.6% |
| Desulfovermiculus | 18.8% | Halomonas | 7.9% | |
| Rubricoccus | 5.6% | Psychroflexus | 7.7% | |
| ML602J-37 | 4.3% | Cladithrix | 4.1% | |
| Rhodovulum | 3.2% | ML602J-37 | 3.8% | |
| Bacillus | 2.3% | Uncultured Saprospiraceae | 3.2% | |
| Thiohalorhabdus | 1.9% | Lysinibacillus | 1.8% | |
| Halomonas | 1% | Uncultured Paenibacillaceae | 1.8% | |
| Tropicimonas | 1.6% | |||
| Marinobacter | 1.6% | |||
| Phaeobacter | 1.2% | |||
| Rathybacter | 1.1% | |||
| Ruegaria | 1% | |||
| ISH – CP | ML602J-37 | 16.7% | Rubricoccus | 79% |
| Halomonas | 12.3% | Uncultured Chitinophagaceae | 3% | |
| Marinobacter | 11.2% | ML602J-37 | 2.7% | |
| Uncultured Anaerolineaceae | 5.6% | Halomonas | 2.2% | |
| Bacillus | 3.4% | |||
| Uncultured Saprospiraceae | 3.2% | |||
| Sediminimonas | 3.1% | |||
| Uncultured Caldilineaceae | 2.6% | |||
| Uncultured Rhodobacteraceae | 2% | |||
| Marinicella | 1.7% | |||
| Rubricoccus | 1.2% | |||
| PSH – RP | Thioalkalispira | 15.3% | Acidoferrobacter | 13.6% |
| Uncultured Chitinophagaceae | 10.8% | Uncultured Clostridiaceae | 6.1% | |
| Uncultured Anaerolineaceae | 5.8% | Magnetospira | 5% | |
| Delsulfovermiculus | 3.3% | Idiomarina | 4.5% | |
| Desulfosalsimonas | 2.3% | Halomonas | 4% | |
| Uncultured Gemmatimonadaceae | 2% | Fulvivirga | 3.9% | |
| Uncultured Marinilabiaceae | 2% | Gramella | 3.9% | |
| Robiginitalea | 2% | Uncultured Victivallaceae | 3.2% | |
| Bacillus | 1.5% | Planctomyces | 2.3% | |
| Uncultured Desulfobacteraceae | 1.5% | Acanthopleuribacter | 1.9% | |
| ML602J-37 | 1.5% | Thiohalophilus | 1.6% | |
| PSH – EP | Halovibrio | 11.8% | Rubricoccus | 94.3% |
| Thioalkalispira | 10.1% | Uncultured Acidobacteriaceae | 3.2% | |
| Marinobacter | 7.1% | |||
| ML602J-37 | 5.6% | |||
| Rubricoccus | 5.3% | |||
| Robiginitalea | 2.8% | |||
| Uncultured Anaerolineaceae | 2.7% | |||
| Uncultured Chitinophagaceae | 2.5% | |||
| Halomonas | 2.2% | |||
| Uncultured Caldilineaceae | 1.8% | |||
| Marinicella | 1.4% | |||
| Uncultured Desulfobacteraceae | 1.3% | |||
| Bacillus | 1.2% | |||
| Uncultured Gemmatimonadaceae | 1.2% | |||
| Desulfosalsimonas | 1.1% | |||
| Uncultured Acidobacteriaceae | 1% | |||
| PSH – CP | ML602J-37 | 19.6% | Halovibrio | 31.7% |
| Uncultured Chitinophagaceae | 15% | Rubricoccus | 17.3% | |
| Uncultured Ectothiorhodospiraceae | 14.3% | Uncultured Chitinophagaceae | 5.5% | |
| Marinobacter | 10.5% | Uncultured Caldilineaceae | 3.1% | |
| Ruegeria | 4.8% | Uncultured Acidobacteriaceae | 2% | |
| Albidovulum | 1.8% | Uncultured Anaerolineaceae | 1.8% | |
| Marinicella | 1.4% | ML602J-37 | 1.7% | |
| Halomonas | 1.3% | |||
| Rathybacter | 1.1% | |||
16S rRNA gene sequences greater than 1% relative abundance alone were considered.