Table 3. Prochlorococcus phnD transcript presence (absolute numbers) in different site locations inferred by BLASTn (E-value < 1e-5) of the two Prochlorococcus marinus MIT9301 phnD genes.
| Sample description | phnD1 | phnD2 |
|---|---|---|
| West Tropical Atlantic Province- S_20154 | 12 | 0 |
| North Atlantic Tropical Gyre- S_20162 | 11 | 2 |
| West Tropical Atlantic Province- TA_20173 | 1 | 0 |
| North Atlantic Tropical Gyre- TA_20179 | 1 | 0 |
| West Tropical Atlantic Province- TA_20197 | 0 | 0 |
| West Tropical Atlantic Province- TA_20199 | 3 | 1 |
| West Tropical Atlantic Province- TA_34838 | 2 | 0 |
| West Tropical Atlantic Province TA_34840 | 7 | 0 |
| South Pacific Subtropical Gyre- TA_34871 | 0 | 0 |
| South Pacific Subtropical Gyre- TA_34877 | 0 | 0 |
| South Pacific Subtropical Gyre- TA_35194 | 0 | 0 |
| South Pacific Subtropical Gyre- TA_35197 | 0 | 0 |
| Bermuda 20 m- SRR036384 | 2 | 0 |
| Bermuda 50 m- SRR036385 | 0 | 0 |
| Bermuda 100 m- SRR036386 | 6 | 22 |
Raw 454 sequence data from the GENEXPRESSION metatranscriptomic project (Hewson et al., 2009) was downloaded from the CAMERA website (https://portal.camera.calit2.net/gridsphere/gridsphere), and data from the Bermuda metatranscriptomic project (Stewart et al., 2010) was downloaded from the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRP001993).