Table 1 High concordance of dominant microbial taxa in 16S rRNA and 2bRAD-M profiling results of 20 underarm samples. The left three columns illustrate the top five genera in 16S profiling results of the 20 underarm samples with average relative abundance and ranking. The right three columns are the corresponding species’ average relative abundance and ranks identified by 2bRAD-M

Staphylococcus

44.43%

1

Staphylococcus epidermidis

27.56%

1

Staphylococcus hominis

12.57%

2

Staphylococcus capitis

4.78%

5

Staphylococcus haemolyticus

1.78%

11

The other 4 species

0.48%

SUM

47.17%

Corynebacterium

15.06%

2

Corynebacterium ureicelerivorans

2.58%

8

Corynebacterium jeddahense

2.41%

9

Corynebacterium aurimucosum

1.80%

10

Corynebacterium pseudogenitalium

1.29%

15

Corynebacterium kefirresidentii

1.23%

17

Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum

1.08%

19

The other 47 species

2.08%

SUM

12.47%

Uruburuella

5.67%

3

Uruburuella suis

5.80%

4

Enterococcus

4.49%

4

Enterococcus devriesei

1.68%

12

Enterococcus dispar

1.48%

13

The other 3 species

0.45%

SUM

3.61%

Moraxella

02.34%

5

Moraxella osloensis

2.77%

7

The other 1 species

0.04%

SUM

2.81%

SUM

72.00%

SUM

71.86%