Microbial biogeography of a university campus

Microbiome

Table 1 Indicator species for building and debris categories

Category	Category info	Organism	Indicator value	Median sequences
Building	Blackberry 1	Deinococcus	0.99	12
		Hymenobacter	0.81	10
		Nocardiaceae	0.79	200
		Williamsia	0.70	354
	Blackberry 2	Chloroflexi	0.89	64
	Blackberry 2	Frankiaceae	0.77	49
	St. Jerome’s	Clostridium bowmanii	0.73	153
Debris presence	Yes	Bacillales	0.70	14
		Geodermatophilaceae	0.70	14
	No	Corynebacterium	0.73	51
		Rothia dentocariosa	0.71	11
		Streptococcus	0.71	236
		Propionibacterium acnes	0.71	74

All p values <0.001. Included significant indicators with indicator value >0.7 and median number of sequences >10. No other buildings had indicator species that met the threshold

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