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Table 3.

Pearson correlations of T-RFs with methane production and sulfate consumption

Domain	Phylogenetic position	T-RF (bp)	Methane production	Sulfate consumption
Archaeal domain	Methanolinea	84	0.454^a	−0.421^a
	Methanolinea	393	−0.659^a	−0.089
	Methanobacteriaceae	92	−0.073	−0.337^b
	Methanoculleus	186	0.352^a	0.351^b
	Methanosaeta	228	0.082	0.528^a
	Methanosaeta	284	−0.274^b	−0.206
	Methanosaeta	495	−0.259	0.048
Bacterial domain	Unknown bacteria	63	−0.482^a	−0.161
	Desulfovibrionaceae	77	−0.158	0.047
	Synergistaceae	160	−0.068	0.326^b
	Thermotogaceae	203	−0.370^a	−0.188
	Smithella	207	0.532^a	0.314^b
	Desulfobacteraceae	209	−0.333^a	0.428^a
	Spirochaetaceae	215	0.715^a	0.136
	Chloroflexi	220	0.467^a	−0.443^a
	Chloroflexi	227	0.029	−0.061
	Candidatus Cloacamonas	337	0.262^b	−0.499^a

^aCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

^bCorrelation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)