Table 1.

GI tract obtained Verrucomicrobia sequences of clades 1–12 corresponding to Fig. 1

Clade	Total amount of sequences in clade	Taxonomy	Host	Similarity (%) to MucT lower limit	Similarity (%) to MucT upper limit	Amount representative sequences
1	1352	Genus: Akkermansia	Human (786), other primates (89), Proboscidea (17), Carnivora (4), Sirenia (2), Cingulata (2), rodentia (440), Artiodactyla (6), Perissodactyla (3) and Galliformes (3)	91.91	100	15
2	277	Genus: Akkermansia	Human (111), Rodentia (165) and Sirenia (1).	95.66	99.09	10
3	4	Genus: Akkermansia	Primates (4)	98.30	98.84	4
4	57	Genus: Akkermansia	Human (57)	94.18	98.41	5
5	201	Genus: Akkermansia	Proboscidea (1), Artiodactyla (142), Diprotodontia (30), Rodentia (3), Perissodactyla (24) and Chiroptera (1)	85.15	90.69	17
6	20	Genus: Akkermansia	Rodentia (19) and Proboscidea (1)	86.25	89.22	4
7	12	Genus: Akkermansia	Fish gut sequences (12)	89.41	90.22	3
8	5	Genus: Akkermansia	Squamata (4) and Sirenia (1)	94.03	94.11	2
9	7	Genus: Akkermansia	Invertebrates (7)	92.74	93.06	2
10	45	Order: Chtoniobacterales, Methylacidiphales and Verrucomicrobiales	Human (UC patients) (2), moth larvae (1), earthworm (37), termite (1), grass carp (2) and ascidian (2).	82.12	86.52	7
11	63	Order: Verrucomicrobiales	earthworm (24), ascidian sea squirt (29), sea cucumber (1), sea horse (1), olive flounder (1), small abalone (2), brown surgeonfish (1), black surgeonfish (1) and grass carp (1), squat lobster (2)	83.37	87.20	8
12	89	Order: Opitutales	Termites (11), ants (6), black millipede (1), cockroaches (2), ascidian (43), olive flounder (1), royal panaque (1), flying fox (2), baboon (2), eastern black and white colobus (12), Sumatran orang-utan (3), red kangaroo (3), capybara (1) and European rabbit (1).	77.95	82.35	10