Table 2 BLAST results from freshwater chordates, molluscs and aquatic arthropods (or arthropods having aquatic life stages) sequences identified in the fecal samples of Japanese macaques.

From: Winter diet of Japanese macaques from Chubu Sangaku National Park, Japan incorporates freshwater biota

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus/species

% similarity

% coverage

Number of reads

Chordata

Actinopterygii

Salmoniformes

Salmonidae

Salmo trutta

100

100

2,745

Mollusca

Gastropoda

Littorinimorpha

Tateidae

Potamopyrgus antipodarum

99.7

100

16,103

 

Gastropoda

Pleuroceridae

Semisulcospiridae

Semisulcospira dolorosa

100

100

179

Arthropoda

Hexanauplia

Cyclopoida

Cyclopidae

Mesocyclops leuckarti

99.7

100

6,842

 

Insecta

Plecoptera

Nemouridae

Nemoura fulva

98.7

100

6

 

Insecta

Diptera

Tipulidae

Tipula sp.

94.9

100

440

 

Insecta

Diptera

Chironomidae

Conchapelopia sp.

93.2

100

203

 

Insecta

Plecoptera

Chloroperlidae

Sweltsa sp.

90.6

100

61

 

Insecta

Diptera

Dixidae

Dixa sp.

90.4

100

6

 

Insecta

Diptera

Chironomidae

 

87.5

100

2,547

  1. % similarity = percentage of similarity between the sequences found in the fecal samples and the sequences in the GenBank database; % coverage = percentage of the sequence found in our sample aligned to a sequence in GenBank; number of reads = number of times that same sequence occurred in the samples.
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