Fig. 1: The information of sampling and microbial community composition in the YBH.
From: Phylogenetically and metabolically diverse autotrophs in the world’s deepest blue hole
a Vertical cross-section and sampling sites through the Sansha Yongle Blue Hole. Blue dots represent samples that were analyzed by 16 S rRNA sequencing; Red dots represent samples that were metagenomic sequenced. b The relative sequence abundance of dominant microbial groups (phylum and class, top 10). c The abundance of bacterial and archaeal 16 S rRNA genes for free-living and particle-associated lifestyles by qPCR analysis. F, free-living lifestyle. P, particle-associated lifestyle. d, e The PcoA results about DNA and RNA sequencing of microbial present across fine depths. f Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) of the microbial communities based on the functional compositional similarity (Bray–Curtis distances) among the 14 samples based on clusters of KEGG orthologous groups (KOs).
