Phylogenetic relatedness determined between antibiotic resistance and 16S rRNA genes in actinobacteria

BMC Microbiology

Table 2 Correlations between distance matrices of resistance gene and 16S rRNA gene sequences

Dataset	Correlated sequences	Taxonomic groups	Number of strains	R	p
isolates	ABC transporter × 16S rRNA	streptomycetes	17	0.61	0.072
	erm × 16S rRNA	streptomycetes	7	1.00	0.005
JGI_IMG	ABC transporter × 16S rRNA	actinobacteria	246	0.66	< 0.001
		streptomycetes	16	0.79	0.001
JGI_IMG	erm × 16S rRNA	actinobacteria	31	0.82	< 0.001
		streptomycetes	6	0.96	0.007
JGI_IMG	ABC transporter × 16S rRNA	actinobacteria	31	0.76	< 0.001
(subset with erm)		streptomycetes	6	0.82	0.094
GB (in cluster)	ABC transporter × 16S rRNA	actinobacteria	6	0.76	0.333
	erm × 16S rRNA	actinobacteria	11	0.82	0.111
		streptomycetes	7	0.83	0.800

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