Fig. 1: Detection of archaea in animal species with different approaches.
From: Factors shaping the abundance and diversity of the gut archaeome across the animal kingdom
a Presence/absence using qPCR with archaea-specific primers, sequencing with archaea-specific primers and sequencing with prokaryotic universal primers. Invertebrates gather 3 classes (Insecta, Mollusca, and Malacostraca). b Comparison of the number of archaeal ASV in sequencing data using archaea-specific and prokaryotic universal primers (n = 218 animal species). In the boxplots, the minima is minimum value, maxima is maximum value, center is median and quartiles are shown by box and whiskers, with individual animals shown as colored dots. In total, archaea-specific sequencing identified 1307 different archaeal ASVs while prokaryotic universal sequencing only identified 140 different archaeal ASVs.
