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Table 4 Pyrosequencing-based fungal phyla present in ISS and Earth-based cleanroom samples

From: Microbiomes of the dust particles collected from the International Space Station and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities

Phylum/class (number of genera)

Number of pyrosequences that are retrieved from:

Number of OTU

ISS HEPA total

ISS HEPA viable

ISS Debris total

ISS Debris viable

JPL-SAF Debris total

JPL-SAF Debris viable

JPL-103 Debris total

JPL-103 Debris viable

Ascomycota

 Dothideomycetes (25)

46

116

 

24

2681

2997

2089

1184

2362

 Eurotiomycetes (7)

24

508

 

6278

1537

265

269

7

63

 Leotiomycetes (2)

2

    

16

   

 Arthoniomycetes

8

    

51

29

1

 

 No rank

1

    

3

   

 Saccharomycetes (5)

6

2536

 

2859

 

46

5

  

 Sordariomycetes (11)

12

  

233

 

66

34

  

Basidiomycota

 Agaricomycetes (3)

4

  

148

 

8

   

 Cystobasidiomycetes (3)

7

    

18

43

424

1020

 Exobasidiomycetes

6

498

 

555

   

3

 

 Microbotryomycetes (3)

8

108

 

401

 

280

111

8

 

 Pucciniomycetes

3

    

2

18

  

 Tremellomycetes (5)

23

  

11

4110

204

175

90

186

 Chytridiomycetes

2

    

4

1

  

Early diverging fungal lineages

1

    

5

3

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