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Table 1 Percentage of unambiguous reads in environmental samples mapping to Alviniconcha symbiont 16S rRNA and mitochondrial CO1 genes, as well as the ratio of 16S rRNA to mtCO1

From: Geography, not lifestyle, explains the population structure of free-living and host-associated deep-sea hydrothermal vent snail symbionts

Sample

Alviniconcha 16S rRNA

Alviniconcha mtCO1

16S rRNA:CO1 Origin

Host-associated Hafa Adai 172

0.019%

0.0032%

5.83 Gill tissue

Host-associated Hafa Adai 60

0.016%

0.0111%

1.46 Gill tissue

Host-associated Hafa Adai 64

0.017%

0.0102%

1.67 Gill tissue

Host-associated Illium 11

0.011%

0.0084%

1.32 Gill tissue

Host-associated Illium 13

0.020%

0.0080%

2.50 Gill tissue

Host-associated Illium 17

0.014%

0.0072%

1.99 Gill tissue

Free-living Illium

0.043%

0.0022%

19.73 Diffuse fluids

Free-living Hafa Adai- VC2

0.084%

0.0019%

43.54 Diffuse fluids

Free-living Hafa Adai- VC1

0.065%

0.0003%

241.70 Diffuse fluids