Proportions of unique identical 16S rRNA reads shared between bite mark and teeth samples included in comparative analyses.

Bold numbers indicate the highest proportion of identical reads in each column. Sample 2 contained less than 10 unique reads therefore was omitted from comparative analyses. Bite mark samples (B) and teeth samples (T) from the same participant have corresponding identifying numbers. The number of rpoB reads in bite mark sample 11 was less than 10 therefore was omitted from comparative analyses of all loci. For bite mark sample 1, teeth samples 10, 13 and 16 share the same proportion however, teeth sample 10 was selected because this data set contained the least number of reads (Figure 1).