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Table 4 Abundant microbial taxa in subway air samples (MetaSUB v. Jiang 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. Jiang

MetaSub

Jiang

Phylum

prevalence

abundance

Phylum

prevalence

Abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Actinobacteria

2.7

9248

48.69%

Actinobacteria

1.1

3625

60.08%

Proteobacteria

2.3

14,379

28.58%

Proteobacteria

1.0

6090

23.40%

Ascomycota

2.4

1843

5.28%

Firmicutes

0.7

1510

4.58%

Bacteroidetes

2.1

3148

5.10%

Bacteroidetes

0.9

1436

3.40%

Firmicutes

1.6

3250

4.52%

Ascomycota

1.1

822

2.78%

Basidiomycota

2.3

598

3.95%

Deinococcus-Thermus

1.0

77

1.94%

Cyanobacteria

2.3

518

1.44%

Basidiomycota

1.1

286

1.91%

Deinococcus-Thermus

2.4

190

1.35%

Cyanobacteria

1.1

243

1.50%

Euryarchaeota

1.9

495

0.63%

Euryarchaeota

0.9

231

0.15%

Acidobacteria

2.6

113

0.08%

Planctomycetes

1.2

52

0.04%

Family

prevalence

abundance

Family

prevalence

abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Micrococcaceae

2.7

785

13.96%

Micrococcaceae

1.2

336

25.63%

Nocardioidaceae

2.8

301

6.58%

Nocardioidaceae

1.1

123

7.02%

Microbacteriaceae

2.6

1213

5.05%

Geodermatophilaceae

1.3

65

4.77%

Sphingomonadaceae

2.8

1010

4.20%

Microbacteriaceae

1.0

486

4.45%

Moraxellaceae

2.0

655

4.12%

Intrasporangiaceae

1.4

97

4.15%

Comamonadaceae

2.4

750

3.68%

Moraxellaceae

0.9

289

4.05%

Geodermatophilaceae

3.0

149

3.59%

Sphingomonadaceae

1.0

357

3.92%

Intrasporangiaceae

3.0

210

3.23%

Comamonadaceae

1.1

337

2.60%

Hymenobacteraceae

2.9

182

2.17%

Staphylococcaceae

0.9

169

2.39%

Flavobacteriaceae

2.2

1594

2.04%

Dietziaceae

1.1

19

1.99%

Genus

prevalence

abundance

Genus

prevalence

abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Arthrobacter

2.7

391

5.63%

Micrococcus

2.1

21

11.69%

Micrococcus

2.8

28

5.60%

Arthrobacter

1.1

153

9.34%

Nocardioides

2.7

167

3.50%

Kocuria

1.2

34

3.53%

Psychrobacter

1.9

131

3.40%

Psychrobacter

0.9

64

3.46%

Sphingomonas

2.9

465

3.38%

Nocardioides

1.0

61

3.38%

Blastococcus

3.0

59

2.30%

Sphingomonas

1.0

155

3.20%

Corynebacterium

2.6

559

2.04%

Blastococcus

1.3

26

3.16%

Hymenobacter

2.9

98

2.02%

Marmoricola

2.0

12

2.78%

Staphylococcus

2.0

289

1.77%

Staphylococcus

0.9

128

2.33%

Kocuria

2.7

79

1.76%

Dietzia

1.1

19

1.99%

Species

prevalence

abundance

Species

prevalence

abundance

mean

total

mean

total

Arthrobacter sp. H41

3.0

3

1.14%

Arthrobacter sp. H41

3.0

3

2.36%

Micrococcus luteus

3.0

3

0.88%

Arthrobacter sp. Leaf234

3.0

3

2.15%

Chlorogloea sp. CCALA 695

3.0

3

0.74%

Marmoricola sp. Leaf446

3.0

3

1.71%

Rubrobacter aplysinae

3.0

3

0.71%

Deinococcus marmoris

3.0

3

1.56%

Arthrobacter sp. Leaf234

3.0

3

0.71%

Blastococcus sp. DSM 44268

3.0

3

1.24%

Aspergillus sp. MA 6041

3.0

3

0.69%

Arthrobacter agilis

3.0

3

1.23%

Marmoricola sp. Leaf446

3.0

3

0.67%

Chlorogloea sp. CCALA 695

3.0

3

1.14%

Deinococcus marmoris

3.0

3

0.66%

Marmoricola scoriae

3.0

3

0.84%

Acidovorax temperans

3.0

3

0.61%

Janibacter sp. Soil728

3.0

3

0.82%

Stereum hirsutum

3.0

3

0.57%

Mrakia frigida

3.0

3

0.77%

  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 Jiang (N = 3) methods