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Table 2 Relative abundance of metazoan small subunit ribosomal (SSU) RNA retrieved, calculated as percentage of total eukaryotic SSU RNA reads obtained per library

From: Metazoans of redoxcline sediments in Mediterranean deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins

Higher taxon

Lower taxon

L UH

U H

U C

D UH

L LH

Crustacea

Centropages

0.72

0

1.27

0

0

Crustacea

Clausocalanus

0.24

0

0

0

0

Crustacea

Labidocera

0.72

0

0

0

0

Crustacea

Neocalanus

0

0

2.53

0

0

Crustacea

Paraeucalanus

0.24

0

0

0

0

Crustacea

Pontella

0.24

0

0

0

0.37

Crustacea

Subeucalanus

0.24

0

0

0

0.91

Crustacea

Maxillopoda

2.39

1.20

1.27

0

0.18

Crustacea

Oithona

0.24

0

0

0

0

Crustacea

Pontophilus

0

0

0

0.02

0

Cnidaria

Aglaura

0.48

0

0

0

0

Cnidaria

Hydrozoa

0.48

0

0

0

0

Cnidaria

Pantachogon

0.24

0

0

0

0

Ctenophora

Undescribed

0.24

0

0

0

0

  1. Taxonomic assignments were made using BLAST against the PR2 database within QIIME. L, L’Atalante; U, Urania; D, Discovery; UH, Upper halocline; H, Halocline; LH, Lower halocline; C, Normoxic, normal saline control