Table 4. Percentages of heterotrophic and mixotrophic protists in 18S rRNA gene clone libraries from two shallow wells (2–26 and 2–29) and the deep well 2–27.
| Phyla | Closest relatives |
24 February |
21 June |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2–26 | 2–29 | 2–27 | 2–26 | 2–29 | 2–27 | ||
| Ciliophora | Cyclidium glaucoma | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 0.0 |
| Lembadion bullinum | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 2.6 | |
| Tetrahymena tropicalis | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Vorticella convallaria | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.7 | 0.0 | |
| Zosterodasys agamalievi | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.6 | |
| Dinophyceae | Pfiesteria piscicida | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| Amoebozoa | Acanthamoeba sp. | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.7 | 37.1 | 0.0 |
| Euglenoza | Rhynchobodo sp. | 2.5 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| Stramenopiles | Bicosoeca petiolata | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29.7 | 17.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Dinobryon sp. | 15.0 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.7 | 17.1 | 2.6 | |
| Ochromonas sp. | 10.0 | 5.0 | 45.9 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 5.3 | |
| Total % in each clone library | 30.0 | 25.0 | 83.8 | 34.3 | 77.1 | 15.8 | |
Abbreviation: OTU, operational taxonomic units. These OTUs had >95% sequence similarity to their closest relatives