Results: 8th Fife (St Andrews) Cub Scouts

DNA sequencing results for soil sample map pin 25307 have arrived and we are analysing them. The soil sample from this site contained 20,562,102 reads (fragments or short pieces of DNA). 95.1% were high quality reads and from this 1,068,954 reads have been classified. Find out how to interpret the pie-chart here: bacteria pie charts learning activity. Find out more about the different phyla and genera of bacteria and genera found using the links below.

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8th Fife (St Andrews) Cub Scouts soil sample collection sitePie chart of top 5 bacterial phyla present

Find out more about these phyla here:

Proteobacteria

Actinobacteria

Planctomycetota

Bacteroidetes

Firmicutes

We found these genera in your soil samples:

Rhizobium

Bradyrhizobium

Burkholderia

Streptomyces

Nocardia

Unclassified Bradyrhizobium

Micromonospora

Nocardioides

Pseudomonas

Variovorax

Sneak preview of the sequencing results – here are some of the species of bacteria found in your soil:

  • Bradyrhizobium elkanii
  • Bradyrhizobium erythrophlei
  • Bradyrhizobium icense
  • Bradyrhizobium lablabi
  • Bradyrhizobium valentinum
  • Conexibacter woesei
  • Rhodopseudomonas palustris
  • Solirubrobacter soli