Figure 5
From: The discovery of Lake Hephaestus, the youngest athalassohaline deep-sea formation on Earth
Stratification of microbial community, inhabiting various layers of the Hephaestus interface. (a) 16S rRNA Phylogenetic tree of phylogenetic groups, recovered from different compartments of the Hephaestus interface and the overlaying seawater. (b) Relative abundance, given as a percentage of all analysed clones from corresponding libraries. Phylogenetic tree was produced using ARB software and the updated SILVA database (May, 2018). Genus-level attribution of Hephaestus clones affiliated to three bacterial taxa, highlighted by asterisks, is given in Supplementary Table 2. Abbreviation used: 2.97 M, the subsample of low interface, collected in 2014; MIF, middle interface; SW, seawater sample, collected at 3,372 mbsl (one meter above the Hephaestus interface); UIF, upper interface.
