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Table 2 Counts of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC) reported on the IMG/ABC database according to phylum and evidence (experimentally proven or predicted only)

From: Microbial community drivers of PK/NRP gene diversity in selected global soils

Phylum

Genomes available

BGC counts (total)

BGC counts

(experimentally proven)

BGC counts

(predicted only)

Talent Ratio (TR)

Acidobacteria

100

960

0

960

9.60

Actinobacteria

6912

247,650

621

247,029

35.83

Bacteroidetes

2163

22,885

2

22,883

10.58

Chloroflexi

290

1262

0

1262

4.35

Cyanobacteria

1015

8159

60

8099

8.04

Firmicutes

15,015

157,654

106

157,548

10.50

Gemmatimonadetes

34

69

0

69

2.03

Nitrospirae

106

245

0

245

2.31

Planctomycetes

193

1343

0

1343

6.96

Proteobacteria

27,431

357,065

386

356,878

13.02

Verrucomicrobia

150

920

0

920

6.13

  1. Data available on 13/04/2018
  2. Talent ratio (TR) = BGC counts (total)/Genomes available