Counts of prokaryotes where the delta in similarity across compared taxonomic levels is below thresholds indicating potential misclassification.

For all prokaryote genera representatives (n = 1266), we computed the median (and max) log10 Jaccard similarity for every lowest-common-ancestor (LCA) taxon level for which there was at least one pairwise comparison. We then computed the delta between different taxon levels, shown in the leftmost column (e.g. species vs genus, species vs family, etc.), and present the number of genera that had at least one comparison below different thresholds (column headers). (XLSX)