Evaluation of the Bacterial Diversity in the Human Tongue Coating Based on Genus-Specific Primers for 16S rRNA Sequencing

Table 4

OTUs assignment of unique tags based on RDP classifier.

OTU	A4		A5		A6		B2		B3		B4
	Number	PCT (%)	Number	PCT (%)	Number	PCT (%)	Number	PCT (%)	Number	PCT (%)	Number	PCT (%)
Genus	548	93.20	406	94.90	495	95.93	464	94.90	388	94.90	637	95.22
Family	15	2.55	11	2.57	10	1.94	12	2.45	10	2.45	17	2.54
Order	9	1.53	3	0.70	4	0.78	4	0.73	3	0.73	6	0.90
Class	9	1.53	3	0.70	6	1.16	7	1.22	5	1.22	8	1.20
Phylum	1	1.70	0	0	0	0	1	0.24	1	0.24	0	0
Domain	6	1.02	5	1.17	1	0.19	3	0.49	2	0.49	1	0.15
Total OTUs	588		428		516		491		409		669