TABLE A5-3Phylogenetic Classification of All Assembled Contigs and Singletons in the Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungus Garden Metagenomes

kb of sequence (% of assembly)
ClassificationA. cephalotesA. colombica topA. colombica bottom
Bacteria29 058.8(71.5%)78 823.2(78.1%)66 803.1(80.3%)
 Proteobacteria28 985.3(71.4%)75 187.6(74.5%)63 493.9(76.3%)
  Gammaproteobacteria28 697.4(70.6%)69 374(68.8%)59 665.8(71.7%)
   Enterobacteriaceae28 225.4(69.5%)53 004.3(52.5%)49 280.1(59.3%)
   Pseudomonadaceae222.8(0.55%)8973.2(8.9%)6741.7(8.1%)
  Betaproteobacteria185.6(0.45%)4940.9(4.9%)3171(3.8%)
  Alphaproteobacteria99.4(0.24%)822.5(0.82%)612.1(0.74%)
 Firmicutes29.1(0.07%)3167.7(3.1%)3043.64(3.6%)
 Actinobacteria19.4(0.05%)106.6(0.11%)82.5(0.01%)
 Bacteroidetes17.9(0.04%)281.8(0.28%)124.1(0.15%)
Eukaryota661.3(1.6%)145.1(0.14%)133.5(0.16%)
 Fungi495.6(1.2%)14.2(0.01%)25.1(0.03%)
 Metazoa19.8(0.05%)81.5(0.08%)66.4(0.08%)
 Viridiplantae143.4(0.35%)35.6(0.04%)35.2(0.04%)
Viruses102.2(0.25%)727.6(0.72%)947.6(1.1%)
 dsDNA viruses85.9(0.21%)713.9(0.71%)579.6(0.7%)
 ssDNA viruses15.3(0.04%)11.6(0.01%)367.25(0.44%)
Other60.1(<0.01%)132.8(<0.01%)105.8(<0.01%)
Unclassified10 741(26.4%)21 076.2(20.9%)15 177.1(18.2%)

BLASTN was used to compare all sequences to NCBI’s non-redundant nucleotide database.

From: Appendix A, Contributed Manuscripts

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The Social Biology of Microbial Communities: Workshop Summary.
Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial Threats.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2012.
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