tax.summary file not printing all levels?

mothur bugs
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Hello all,
A quick question here since I can’t seem to find a previous discussion about it on the forum:

Does the .tax.summary file always NOT print out the statistics for the last taxomonic level? I’m using a user-defined .tax file with five levels (Eukarya;Major_Group;Group;Class;Genus) and the resulting .tax.summary files coming out of the classify.seqs command always give me down to “taxlevel” 4 (=Class; “0.1.1.1.1”) and not the stats for level 5 (“0.1.1.1.1.1”)…

Any ideas? I would love to get the “genus” assignments without having to go through the .tax files pseudo-manually (as I already do for the dominant OTUs, but there’s only a dozen or so).
Thanks!

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Can you double check that you have the latest release? We fixed a bug like this a release or two ago. It’s also possible that the eukarya classification is wonky and won’t go that deep, but i’d double check your version of mothur first

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Thanks for the quick response Pat - that was the problem, I was using “one version ago” and now it works fine with 1.16.1…