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Table 1 Classification of environments

From: Environmental distribution of prokaryotic taxa

Supertype

Type

Subtype

Samples

OTUs

Seqs

  

Coastal waters

65

3620

8596

  

Open waters

159

5087

13088

 

Saline waters (300)

Deep waters

34

1752

3621

  

Lakes

23

727

973

  

Other

19

964

1452

 

Saline sediment (199)

 

199

8514

14300

  

Aquifers

42

1606

2087

Aquatic (127)

 

Groundwaters

47

1768

3212

 

Freshwaters (501)

Lakes

131

4326

8505

  

Rivers

67

2823

5467

  

Drinking waters

14

504

983

  

Wastewaters

200

5659

9139

 

Freshwater sediment (101)

 

101

4279

6670

 

Freshwaters-Saline waters interfase (31)

 

31

1047

1835

 

Marine host-associated (145)

 

145

5116

8029

  

Agricultural

110

8324

18987

  

Arctic

59

4186

6749

  

Arid

30

1344

1738

  

Cave

21

682

1010

 

Soil (584)

Forest

63

4980

7880

Terrestrial (732)

 

Grassland

14

4910

5860

  

Rocks

67

2920

4039

  

Saline

27

1365

2859

  

Other

193

10360

17297

 

Plants (148)

Rhizosphere

100

4779

7664

  

Other

48

1888

3741

Thermal (190)

Hydrothermal (79)

 

79

2981

5077

 

Geothermal (111)

 

111

2705

6027

 

Animal host (52)

 

52

1292

2661

  

Human

87

9715

54725

  

Cattle

73

3418

6519

 

Gastrointestinal tract (331)

Mouse

19

3582

18330

Host-associated (463)

 

Insect

79

3545

8838

  

Other

73

2384

4556

 

Oral (39)

 

39

886

10546

 

Vagina (12)

 

12

314

2674

 

Other tissue (29)

 

29

1553

6521

 

Aerial (11)

 

11

1641

3938

 

Oil (51)

 

51

1202

1902

  

Compost

52

1607

2639

  

Food treatment

20

368

1117

 

Artificial (640)

Industrial

222

4997

8192

Other (569)

 

Mines

107

3836

6157

  

Other

39

1645

2628

 

Soil-Saline waters interf (13) (13(13)

 

13

2334

3989

 

Soil-Freshwaters interfase(54) iiinterfasinterfase(54)

 

54

3278

5106

Unknown (200)

  

200

6329

10889

  1. Hierarchical classification of environments composed of three nested levels of resolution (supertype, type and subtype), showing also the number of samples, OTUs and individual sequences in each.