rpoB, a promising marker for analyzing the diversity of bacterial communities by amplicon sequencing

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Table 2 Composition of the five mock communities

Bacterial species name	Mock1^a	Mock2^a	Mock3^a	Mock4^a	Mock5^a
Enterococcus mundtii	0.09	0.01	0.17	0.17	0.17
Alcaligenes faecalis	1.58	0.11	2.81	2.91	2.93
Variovorax paradoxus	2.29	0.16	4.08	4.23	4.25
Pseudomonas protegens	2.07	0.14	3.69	3.83	3.85
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	8.39	0.57	14.93	15.50	15.57
Brevundimonas diminuta	6.15	0.42	10.94	11.36	11.41
Serratia liquefaciens	1.45	0.10	2.58	2.68	2.69
Acinetobacter sp.	6.21	0.42	11.05	11.47	11.52
Pseudomonas chlororaphis	3.10	0.21	5.51	5.72	5.74
Ochrobactrum anthropi	2.15	0.15	3.83	3.98	4.00
Pseudomonas putida	3.11	0.21	5.53	5.74	5.77
Sphingobacterium sp.	5.72	0.39	10.17	10.56	10.60
Acidovorax sp.	2.24	0.15	3.98	4.14	4.15
Achromobacter sp.	1.42	0.10	2.53	2.63	2.64
Paenibacillus sp.	3.21	0.22	5.72	5.93	5.96
Delftia sp.	1.41	0.10	2.51	2.61	2.62
Sphingomonas sp.	3.28	0.22	5.83	6.05	6.08
Xenorhabdus nematophila	35.87	36.69	3.35	0.40	0.04
Photorhabdus luminescens	10.24	59.64	0.80	0.08	0.01

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