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From: Gelatinous plankton is important in the diet of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) larvae in the Sargasso Sea

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Composition of the eukaryotic taxonomic groups in marine snow aggregates and European eel leptocephali guts. (A) Summed overview of the marine snow aggregates (n = 31). (B) Summed overview of Anguilla anguilla gut contents (n = 75). (C) Composition of each marine snow particle separated by sampling station. (D–F) Composition of each leptocephali gut examined separated by sampling station; each column relates to an individual A. anguilla larvae. Station 30 additionally subdivided by larval size classes: “Small” < 15.2 mm, and “Large” ≥ 15.3 mm, as well as arbitrary assessments of gut content fullness. Plot based on top 50 most abundant OTUs accounting for 82% and 92% of all reads for marine snow and gut samples, respectively.

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