TABLE 3.

Sequence similarities of the excised bacterial bands that appear in Fig. 1^a

Band		Closest relative
No.	% Simi-larity	Species	Accession no.	Taxonomic description
1	96.5	Flavobacterium sp.	U63936	Cytophagales
2	86.6	Flexibacter sancti	M62795	Cytophagales
3	97.4	Unidentified bacterium LD28	Z99999	β-Proteobacteria
4	97.4	Flavobacterium sp.	U63936	Cytophagales
5	98.8	Blastobacter sp.	U20772	β-Proteobacteria
5	98.8	Unidentified bacterium	AJ223452	β-Proteobacteria
6	100	Blastobacter sp.	U20772	β-Proteobacteria
6	100	Unidentified bacterium	AJ223452	β-Proteobacteria
7	96.8	Flavobacterium aquatile	M62797	Cytophagales
8a	100	Sphingomonas adhaesiva	X72720	β-Proteobacteria
8b	96.4	Hyphomicrobium vulgare	X53182	α-Proteobacteria
9	96.4	Hyphomicrobium vulgare	X53182	α-Proteobacteria
10	98.3	Unidentified bacterium	U85190	Actinomycetes
11	97.1	Unidentified bacterium	U85190	Actinomycetes
12	99.4	Mycobacterium sp.	U46146	Actinomycetes

^aSequences were aligned to the closest relatives from the EMBL database. The similarity was calculated with gaps and ambiguities not taken into account.