Table 2 New taxa introduced with MiDAS 5

From: MiDAS 5: Global diversity of bacteria and archaea in anaerobic digesters

 

Total taxa

New taxa

Increase (%)

Phylum

105

20

23.5%

Class

259

37

16.7%

Order

727

104

16.7%

Family

2212

360

19.4%

Genus

12,254

2770

29.2%

Species

40,207

8858

28.3%

  1. The number of new taxa represent unique taxa at the different taxonomic ranks that were not part of MiDAS 4.8.120 and includes both official taxonomic names and de novo placeholder names provided by AutoTax6.