Table 3.

Summary of taxonomic assignments for Storm Bay zooplankton communities from site 2 based on HTS data for three genetic markers. Taxonomic assignments performed using MEGAN 5 based on BLASTN searches against NCBI “nt” database (downloaded June 2016)

	Cop16S	COI	Uni18S
No. OTUs	62	181	97
Unassigned OTUs	20 (32.3%)	61 (33.7%)	2 (2.1%)
No. phyla (zooplankton phyla)	5 (5)	18 (9)	11 (10)
No. species (zooplankton species)	13 (13)	29 (26)	10 (8)
Crustacea
No. orders	4	6	3
No. families	11	13	10
No. species	10	16	3