Table 6.
A summary of the BLAST searches for the four aquarium tanks.
| number of readsa | total | Kuroshio | tropical fish | deep-sea | mangrove |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| more than or equal to 97% identity with reference sequences (number of libraries) | 4 322 882 (14) | 2 568 008 (5) | 1 299 788 (4) | 259 191 (3) | 212 643 (2) |
| tank fish | 4 053 184 (93.4%) | 2 375 892 (92.5%) | 1 237 546 (95.2%) | 245 201 (94.6%) | 194 545 (91.5%) |
| non-tank fish | 286 446 (6.6%) | 192 116 (7.5%) | 62 242 (4.8%) | 13 990 (5.4%) | 18 098 (8.5%) |
| number of tank species | 249 | 75 | 159 | 15 | 8 |
| number of tank species with reference sequences | 180 | 63 | 105 | 13 | 8 |
| number of tank species detected in MiSeq analysis | 168 (93.3%) | 61 (96.8%) | 95 (90.5%) | 13 (100%) | 8 (100%) |
| water volumes of tank (m3) | 8465 | 7500 | 700 | 230 | 35.6 |
aThose reads with less than 97% sequence identity are excluded from the above table for simplicity. They are 285 172 reads in total; 57 572 reads from the Kuroshio, 222 897 reads from the tropical fish, 1093 reads from the deep-sea and 3610 reads from the mangrove tanks, respectively.