Table 1.
18S v9 eukaryotic MOTUs detected in the gut contents of ommastrephid squids as a percentage (%) and clustered by size categories.
| Kingdom | Phyllum | Class | Early paralarvae (n = 23) | Late paralarva (n = 1) | Subadults (n = 2) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads (%) | Count | Reads (%) | Reads (%) | Count | |||
| Plantae | Magnoliophyta | N/A | 3.38 | 2 | |||
| Eudicotyledoneae | 0.69 | 1 | |||||
| Magnoliopsida sp. 1 | 0.25 | 1 | |||||
| Magnoliopsida sp. 2 | 0.82 | 2 | |||||
| Magnoliopsida sp. 3 | 9.95 | 3 | |||||
| Magnoliopsida sp. 4 | 1.97 | 2 | |||||
| Magnoliopsida sp. 5 | 1.01 | 1 | |||||
| Magnoliopsida sp. 6 | 0.47 | 1 | |||||
| Monocotyledoneae sp. 1 | 0.71 | 1 | |||||
| Monocotyledoneae sp. 2 | 1.40 | 1 | |||||
| Rosopsida | 1.69 | 3 | |||||
| Fungi | N/A | N/A | 2.71 | 1 | |||
| Ascomycota | Dothideomycetes sp. 1 | 5.10 | 1 | ||||
| Dothideomycetes sp. 2 | 0.33 | 1 | |||||
| Eurotiomycetes sp. 1 | 4.89 | 1 | |||||
| Eurotiomycetes sp. 2 | 1.05 | 1 | |||||
| Eurotiomycetes sp. 3 | 0.29 | 1 | |||||
| Eurotiomycetes sp. 4 | 2.33 | 1 | 2.52 | 1 | |||
| Pezizomycetes | 0.33 | 1 | |||||
| Pleosporomycetidae sp. 1 | 0.42 | 1 | |||||
| Pleosporomycetidae sp. 2 | 0.64 | 1 | |||||
| Saccharomycetes | 12.59 | 2 | |||||
| Basidiomycota | Agaricomycetes sp. 1 | 4.55 | 2 | ||||
| Agaricomycetes sp. 2 | 0.27 | 1 | |||||
| Agaricomycetes sp. 3 | 0.23 | 1 | |||||
| Agaricomycetes sp. 4 | 1.05 | 1 | |||||
| Basidiomycetes | 1.30 | 1 | |||||
| Microbotryomycetes sp. 1 | 0.49 | 1 | |||||
| Microbotryomycetes sp. 2 | 2.42 | 1 | 5.68 | ||||
| Microbotryomycetes sp. 3 | 0.64 | 1 | |||||
| Microbotryomycetes sp. 4 | 3.05 | 4 | |||||
| Tremellomycetes sp. 1 | 8.60 | 5 | |||||
| Tremellomycetes sp. 2 | 0.56 | 1 | |||||
| Tremellomycetes sp. 3 | 2.04 | 1 | |||||
| Tremellomycetes sp. 4 | 0.64 | 1 | |||||
| Entomophthoromycota | Entomophthoraceae | 2.51 | 1 | ||||
| Chromista | Ochrophyta | Synurophyceae | 0.62 | 1 | |||
| Bacillariophyceae sp. 1 | 1.78 | 1 | |||||
| Bacillariophyceae sp. 2 | 1.73 | 1 | |||||
| Protista | Ciliophora | Oligohymenophorea sp. 1 | 1.50 | 1 | |||
| Oligohymenophorea sp. 2 | 0.42 | 1 | |||||
| Dinoflagellata | Syndinea sp. 1 | 2.53 | 1 | ||||
| Syndinea sp. 2 | 4.17 | 1 | |||||
| Syndinea sp. 3 | 3.14 | 1 | |||||
| Syndinea sp. 4 | 21.28 | 1 | |||||
| Metazoa | Arthropoda | Insecta sp. 1 | 3.83 | 1 | |||
| Insecta sp. 2 | 0.41 | 1 | |||||
| Insecta sp. 3 | 1.21 | 2 | |||||
| Maxillopoda sp. 1 | 0.71 | 1 | |||||
| Maxillopoda sp. 2 | 2.32 | 1 | |||||
| Chordata | Appendicularia | 0.55 | 1 | ||||
| Actinopterygii sp. 1 | 4.13 | 1 | |||||
| Actinopterygii sp. 2 | 0.46 | 1 | |||||
| Mammalia | 1.16 | 2 | |||||
| Cnidaria | Hydrozoa | 10.64 | 1 | ||||
| Mollusca | Cephalopoda sp. 1 (Ommastrephes sp.) | 6.53 | 6.59 | 1 | |||
| Cephalopoda sp. 2 (Illex sp.) | 42.68 | 1 | |||||
| Cephalopoda sp. 3 (Sthenoteuthis sp.) | 3.27 | 2 | |||||
| Cephalopoda sp. 4 (Eucleoteuthis luminosa/Dosidicus gigas) | 1.00 | 2 | 87.78 | ||||
| Total reads | 261,611 | 11,541 | 26,357 | ||||
Taxonomic assignments are at a Class level, with the exception of Cephalopoda, which are identified at a genus level. The count number indicates the number of individuals of each class size category with reads for the gut content item. N/A, not applicable.