Table 1 Abundance of isolates and clones within the bacterial domain derived from the 16S rRNA gene sequences of lab-reared adult A. stephensi.
Division | Adult Male Culturable | Adult Male Unulturable | Adult Female Culturable | Adult Female Unulturable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | OTUa | Closest database matches | OTU | Closest database matches | OUT | Closest database matches | OTU | Closest database matches |
CFB group | 4(6)b | Chryseobacterium meninqosepticum | 3(8) | C. meninqosepticum | 4(6) | C. meninqosepticum | 2(6) | C. meninqosepticum |
Firmicutes | - | - | 1(1) | Elizabethkingia meninqosepticum | - | - | 1(1) | E. meninqosepticum |
Alpha proteobacteria | 1(1) | Agrobacterium sp. | 2(2) | A. tumefaciens | - | - | - | - |
Beta proteobacteria | - | - | - | - | 2(3) | Comamonas sp. | - | - |
Gamma proteobacteria | 3(4) | Pseudomonas mendocina | 1(1) | P. tolaasii | 2(2) | P. mendocina | - | - |
| Â | 3(7) | Serratia marcescens | 4(8) | S. marcescens | 3(5) | S. marcescens | 3(15) | S. marcescens |
| Â | - | - | 1(1) | Klebsiella sp. | - | - | 1(2) | Serratia sp. |
Unclassified Bacteria | - | - | 3(3) | Uncultured bacterium clone | - | - | - | - |
Total | 11 (18) | Species = 4 | 15 (24) | Species = 7 | 11 (16) | Species = 4 | 7 (24) | Species = 4 |