Fig. 3: The distribution of Gms homologs in archaea genomes and environmental metagenomes.
a The BLASTp searches of Gms protein homologs in the NCBI database and the respiration features of archaea are derived from published studies30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42. Taxonomic groups that contain at least one species with Gms homologs are designated by black circles. It is important to note that the presence of black circles in a group does not imply that every species within the group possesses Gms homologs. Conversely, taxonomic groups lacking any Gms homologs are represented by white circles. For respiration features, the groups containing only obligate anaerobic archaea are marked in orange, aerobic and facultative archaea are marked in blue, and the groups containing anaerobic and aerobic/facultative archaea are marked in a mix color of orange and blue. b The relative abundances of gms gene homologs are present as RPKM values, and the reads of gms were obtained by tBLASTn searches of metagenomes in the SRA database on NCBI. The sample depths and oxygen concentration profiles are included in the Source Data. The color indicates oxygen levels (blue is oxic, yellow is suboxic, and orange is anoxic). The y-axis represents the approximate depths of water and sediment. c Geographical distribution of analyzed metagenome samples. The map was created using Ocean Data View (version 5.6.5)43. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
