Table 3. A comparison of the number of assigned diet taxa using the Bioline and the Platinum Taq reactions.

The taxa identified in each of the reactions pertain to diet taxa, therefore taxa identified as lobster (Astacidea), matching the DNA negative sample or identified as terrestrial were removed. The ‘diet hit count’ refers to the number of sequence reads matching a potential dietary reference sequences (identified as diet taxa) in the databases. The ‘exclusive taxa’ are those taxa found only in one category i.e., in the Bioline reaction but not in the Platinum Taq reaction.

	Taxa identified in the Bioline reaction (diet hit count)	Taxa identified in the Platinum Taq reaction (diet hit count)
Midori/NCBI (COI)	9 (648)	5 (62)
NCBI/PR2/SILVA (18S)	2 (10)	1 (6)
Total taxa	11 (658)	6 (68)
Total exclusive taxa	6 (190)	1 (13)