Table 1.

Data on the metagenomic assembly of nine novel genomic sequences of putative archaeal RNA viruses

Contig	Length (nt)	No. of reads recruited to each genome	Identical sites	Pair wise identity (%)	Coverage			G + C content (%)
					Mean	Minimum	Maximum
1	5,866	3,273	5,344	98.4	195.5	8	463	50.6
2	2,929	1,437	2,551	97.7	169.2	6	361	50.5
3	2,439	142	2,397	98.8	21.5	2	45	49.6
4	2,241	99	2,202	98.6	16.5	2	40	52.0
5	986	17	970	97.3	5.8	2	13	55.1
6	863	20	851	98.7	8.1	2	16	53.5
7	663	72	647	97.9	36.4	7	62	49.6
8	631	11	529	99.0	6.6	1	11	50.4
9	417	4	315	99.2	3.3	1	4	54.9