Table 1.

Medically and biotechnologically relevant genera and their resolvability using 16S amplicon sequencing of the V3V4 and V1V9 region

Genus	Complete genomes	Species	Allele multiplicitya (%)		Overlapsb (%)
			V3V4	V1V9	V3V4	V1V9
Lactobacillus	123	19	30.08	62.60	21.05	10.53
Vibrio	336	52	86.61	98.51	57.69	17.31
Bacillus	856	47	63.90	93.93	74.47	55.32
Pseudomonas	860	92	24.53	59.42	80.43	35.87
Staphylococcus	889	38	34.76	87.49	65.79	13.16
Escherichia	1700	4	32.94	91.47	100.00	50.00

^aThe percentage of genomes having more than one unique allele.

^bThe percentage of species having at least one allele overlapping another species.