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Table 1 Statistics for the microbiome diversity in Pan and Homo

From: The saliva microbiome of Pan and Homo

Group

Number of individuals

Number of sequences

Number of OTUs

Unknown (%)

Unclassified (%)

Number of Genera

Variance between individuals (%)

Variance within individuals (%)

Bonobo

23

10312

1209

3.2

4.4

69

19.1

80.9

Chimpanzee

22

14884

2394

4.1

10.0

79

11.3

88.7

Human-DRC

15

5019

731

1.0

0.5

47

36.3

63.7

Human-SL

13

17954

1797

0.8

1.1

59

28.9

71.1

  1. Unknown (%) is the percentage of sequences that do not match a sequence in the RDP database. Unclassified (%) is the percentage of sequences that match a sequence in the RDP database for which the genus has not been classified.