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Table 3 Abundant microbial taxa in subway air samples (MetaSUB v. Zymobiomics method)

From: Performance evaluation of a new custom, multi-component DNA isolation method optimized for use in shotgun metagenomic sequencing-based aerosol microbiome research

MetaSUB v. Zymobiomics

MetaSub

Zymobiomics

Phylum

prevalence

abundance

Phylum

prevalence

Abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Actinobacteria

2.7

9271

51.61%

Actinobacteria

2.7

9301

57.72%

Proteobacteria

2.3

14,269

27.02%

Proteobacteria

2.2

13,421

23.67%

Firmicutes

1.6

3250

4.76%

Ascomycota

2.5

1899

4.91%

Bacteroidetes

2.0

2999

4.74%

Basidiomycota

2.4

622

4.75%

Ascomycota

2.4

1843

4.42%

Firmicutes

1.3

2705

3.30%

Basidiomycota

2.3

606

3.84%

Bacteroidetes

1.5

2257

2.77%

Cyanobacteria

2.3

526

1.35%

Deinococcus-Thermus

2.6

204

1.26%

Deinococcus-Thermus

2.5

196

1.23%

Cyanobacteria

1.9

432

0.66%

Euryarchaeota

1.7

450

0.62%

Euryarchaeota

1.5

393

0.58%

Acidobacteria

2.5

112

0.08%

Acidobacteria

2.6

114

0.08%

Family

prevalence

abundance

Family

prevalence

Abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Micrococcaceae

2.8

801

15.72%

Micrococcaceae

2.8

822

20.34%

Nocardioidaceae

2.8

308

6.51%

Nocardioidaceae

2.9

311

6.65%

Microbacteriaceae

2.6

1222

4.89%

Microbacteriaceae

2.6

1235

4.70%

Sphingomonadaceae

2.8

1006

3.88%

Geodermatophilaceae

3.0

150

4.24%

Geodermatophilaceae

3.0

150

3.67%

Sphingomonadaceae

2.8

1013

4.04%

Moraxellaceae

1.9

608

3.54%

Intrasporangiaceae

3.0

211

3.46%

Intrasporangiaceae

3.0

211

3.15%

Corynebacteriaceae

2.6

571

3.35%

Comamonadaceae

2.6

800

2.94%

Comamonadaceae

2.7

838

3.02%

Corynebacteriaceae

2.6

568

2.93%

Rhodobacteraceae

2.6

1484

2.28%

Staphylococcaceae

2.3

401

2.17%

Moraxellaceae

1.6

533

2.14%

Genus

prevalence

abundance

Genus

prevalence

Abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Micrococcus

2.9

29

7.27%

Micrococcus

2.9

29

9.34%

Arthrobacter

2.8

399

5.32%

Arthrobacter

2.9

413

6.44%

Nocardioides

2.8

176

3.51%

Nocardioides

2.9

177

3.57%

Sphingomonas

2.9

461

3.09%

Kocuria

2.7

79

3.44%

Corynebacterium

2.6

568

2.93%

Corynebacterium

2.6

571

3.35%

Psychrobacter

2.0

141

2.85%

Sphingomonas

2.9

464

3.23%

Blastococcus

3.0

60

2.44%

Blastococcus

3.0

60

2.92%

Staphylococcus

2.2

308

2.02%

Psychrobacter

2.7

184

1.82%

Kocuria

2.7

79

2.02%

Dietzia

3.0

51

1.70%

Hymenobacter

2.9

98

1.92%

Paracoccus

2.9

167

1.58%

Species

prevalence

abundance

Species

prevalence

Abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Micrococcus luteus

3.0

3

1.13%

Micrococcus luteus

3.0

3

1.44%

Arthrobacter sp. H41

3.0

3

1.00%

Arthrobacter sp. H41

3.0

3

1.38%

Rubrobacter aplysinae

3.0

3

0.78%

Rubrobacter aplysinae

3.0

3

0.97%

Arthrobacter sp. Leaf234

3.0

3

0.67%

Arthrobacter sp. Leaf234

3.0

3

0.89%

Marmoricola sp. Leaf446

3.0

3

0.65%

Stereum hirsutum

3.0

3

0.76%

Chlorogloea sp. CCALA 695

3.0

3

0.63%

Marmoricola sp. Leaf446

3.0

3

0.76%

Deinococcus marmoris

3.0

3

0.60%

Fomitopsis pinicola

3.0

3

0.68%

Stereum hirsutum

3.0

3

0.50%

Blastococcus sp. DSM 44268

3.0

3

0.64%

Blastococcus sp. DSM 44268

3.0

3

0.48%

Deinococcus marmoris

3.0

3

0.57%

Fomitopsis pinicola

3.0

3

0.45%

Lecanicillium sp. LEC01

3.0

3

0.57%

  1. Top ten microbial phyla, families, genera and species in subway air samples (N = 3) that were split and processed with the MetaSUB (N = 3) and Zymobiomics (N = 3) methods