TABLE 1.
Numbers of RsaI-BstUI RFLP phylotypes in 16S rDNA clone libraries and culture collections from four soil environments
| Parameter | Clone libraries
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Culture collections
|
Clones | Isolates | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C0 | C1 | S0 | S1 | iC0 | iC1 | iS0 | iS1 | ||||
| Total no. of patterns | 154 (196)a | 161 (212) | 134 (203) | 150 (190) | 8 (46) | 14 (37) | 8 (49) | 18 (47) | 498 (801) | 34 (179) | 526 (980) |
| No. of unique patternsb | 107 (110) | 106 (118) | 98 (114) | 114 (130) | 2 (6) | 7 (7) | 5 (7) | 9 (10) | 425 (472) | 23 (30) | 448 (502) |
| % of unique patterns | 69 (56) | 66 (56) | 73 (56) | 76 (68) | 25 (13) | 50 (19) | 63 (14) | 50 (21) | 85 (59) | 68 (17) | 85 (51) |
| No. of rare phylotypesc | 132 | 136 | 106 | 130 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 13 | |||
a
The values in parentheses are the numbers of clones or isolates.
b
Unique patterns were found in only one clone library or culture collection.
c
Rare phylotypes were phylotypes that were represented by only a single clone in a clone library or a single isolate in a culture collection.