Table 2. Results of the SIMPER analysis to identify the contribution of the five most important OTUs to the dissimilarity and similarity of the groups defined by temperature.

OTU	Clade assignment	Dissimilarity contribution %			Similarity contribution %
		TEMPERATE and COLD	WARM and COLD	TEMPERATE and WARM	COLD	TEMPERATE	WARM
589	E	47.53	47.8	21.38	98.75	43.32	4.59
527	A or C	3.74	7.09	7.37	0.04	6.17	21.89
529	A or C	7.4	4.77	6.42	0.17	12.46	12.22
531	A or C	5.25	3.75	3.98	0.08	8.47	13.06
567	B	4.75	3.11	5.83	0	4.8	3.72

Abbreviation: OTU, operational taxonomic unit.

Contributions >5% are represented in bold.