Table 2.

Statistical analysis of abundance of microbes between basins at different depths.

	Bacterial 16S rRNA		Archaeal 16S rRNA		Archaeal amoA
	F stat	P value	F stat	P value	F stat	P value
Epipelagic	4.363	0.001	22.96	3 × 10−10	9.768	2.09 × 10−5
Mesopelagic	3.072	0.037	20.08	2.75 × 10−8	11.37	1.28 × 10−5
Bathypelagic	10.75	0.0005	23.47	3.5 × 10−6	3.115	0.064

ANOVA was used to compare the abundance of bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA and archaeal amoA gene abundance between basins at different depths. P values in bold are considered significant.