Table 3 Relative abundance of families involved in Hg(II) methylation based on hgcA sequences in 34 hotspots.

From: Mercury methylating microbial communities of boreal forest soils

Families

Örebro

Balsjö

Strömsjöliden

% of hgcA reads

% of hgcA reads

% of hgcA reads

Unclassified Deltaproteobacteria

43.24 ± 37.11

44.85 ± 30.09

55.69 ± 18.23

Geobacteraceae

26.79 ± 31.09

24.62 ± 22.22

39.40 ± 18.96

Unclassified Bacteria

10.72 ± 17.45

25.58 ± 33.67

1.43 ± 1.02

Ruminococcaceae

9.12 ± 18.23

1.52 ± 2.30

0.15 ± 0.04

Unclassified

6.62 ± 8.65

2.37 ± 3.86

1.27 ± 2.98

Unclassified Euryarchaeota

0.84 ± 2.22

0.02 ± 0.02

0.01 ± 0.02

Desulfovibrionaceae

0.83 ± 1.28

0.16 ± 0.03

0.02 ± 0.04

Unclassified Methanomicrobiales

0.49 ± 1.21

0.06 ± 0.09

0.03 ± 0.12

Syntrophaceae

0.35 ± 0.45

0.05 ± 0.00

0.00 ± 0.00

Methanomassiliicoccaceae

0.31 ± 0.53

0.02 ± 0.00

0.13 ± 0.05

Methanoregulaceae

0.20 ± 0.03

0.06 ± 0.03

0.00 ± 0.01

Syntrophomonadaceae

0.17 ± 0.13

0.02 ± 0.03

0.13 ± 0.04

Unclassified Desulfovibrionales

0.14 ± 0.15

0.02 ± 0.05

0.03 ± 0.04

Unclassified Clostridiales

0.06 ± 0.22

0.51 ± 0.19

0.08 ± 0.07

Unclassified Firmicutes

0.06 ± 0.02

0.00 ± 0.00

0.00 ± 0.00

Unclassified Desulfuromonadales

0.03 ± 0.00

0.10 ± 0.03

0.39 ± 0.32

Desulfobulbaceae

0.02 ± 0.02

0.01 ± 0.00

0.00 ± 0.01

Desulfuromonadaceae

0.01 ± 0.01

0.00 ± 0.04

0.00 ± 0.04

Syntrophorhabdaceae

0.01 ± 0.00

0.00 ± 0.02

0.00 ± 0.06

Unclassified Deferrisoma

0.01 ± 0.00

0.00 ± 0.00

1.18 ± 0.98

Desulfarculaceae

0.00 ± 0.02

0.00 ± 0.00

0.00 ± 0.02

Pelobacteraceae

0.00 ± 0.01

0.01 ± 0.01

0.07 ± 0.03