Summary of taxonomy
There were 23 species, 32 genera, and 31 families belonging to 9 orders
detected across ginger and native forest sites. Only 23.2% and 37.8%
of ASVs returned a confident species or genus ID respectively. This was
improved at the family-level; 61.6% of ASVs returned family IDs. 16s
sequences returned the lowest matches at 91.58% pairwise identity on
average. While returning the lowest ASVs and retained specimens, 18s had
the highest matches at 98.27%; 28s was near with an average match of
97.72%. The low percent identity matches for many ASVs biased taxonomic
results at species and genera level towards well-known taxa present in
GenBank; because of this, family- and order-level were used along with
ASV identity.