TABLE 2.
Distribution of major phylogenetic groups
| Domain | Division | Subdivision or subgroup | Abundance (%) in clone librariesa
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| 50-cm | 103-cm | 125-cm | 139-cm | 163-cm | Avg | |||
| Bacteria | Proteobacteria | Alphaproteobacteria | 1.8 | 1.4 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| Betaproteobacteria | 8.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | ||
| Gammaproteobacteria | 4.2 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.8 | ||
| Deltaproteobacteria | 0.0 | 5.8 | 47.8 | 39.8 | 14.0 | 18.9 | ||
| DSS | 0.0 | 4.3 | 19.6 | 8.0 | 14.0 | |||
| Eel-1 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 28.3 | 31.2 | 0.0 | |||
| Planctomycetes | 26.8 | 20.3 | 7.6 | 29.5 | 7.0 | 19.5 | ||
| GNS | 13.7 | 5.8 | 8.7 | 2.3 | 39.5 | 14.1 | ||
| Firmicutes | 2.4 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | ||
| Acidobacteria | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.8 | ||
| Actinobacteria | 0.0 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1.4 | ||
| JS1 | 1.2 | 5.8 | 10.9 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | ||
| OP1 | 11.3 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17.4 | 7.6 | ||
| OP8 | 17.3 | 27.5 | 4.3 | 5.7 | 1.2 | 11.5 | ||
| OP11 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | ||
| Other | 12.5 | 14.5 | 9.8 | 11.4 | 16.3 | 12.7 | ||
| Archaea | Crenarchaeota | MBGB | 23.0 | 70.8 | 29.8 | 59.3 | 37.6 | 42.0 |
| MCG | 17.2 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 7.5 | 7.3 | ||
| MHVGb | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | ||
| Other | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | ||
| Euryarchaeota | Thermoplasmatales (MBGD) | 57.5 | 25.0 | 60.7 | 11.9 | 10.8 | 34.4 | |
| ANME-1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 20.3 | 24.7 | 10.4 | ||
| Other | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19.4 | 0.4 | ||
a
For Bacteria, the numbers of clones in the 50-cm, 103-cm, 125-cm, 139-cm, and 163-cm clone libraries were 168, 69, 92, 88, and 86, respectively, and for the Archaea the numbers of clones in these libraries were 87, 72, 84, 59, and 93, respectively.
b
MHVG, marine hydrothermal vent group.