Figure 4

Potential methanotrophic genera detected. Shown is the proportion of reads assigned to methanotrophic genera at the genus level in MEGAN for each metagenome. In the left section known aerobic methanotrophic genera are presented. In the middle section known taxa involved in anaerobic methane oxidation are presented. In the right section known genera of sulphate reducing bacteria are presented. The archaeal sulphate reducing genus Archaeoglobus is also included in this section. The 0-4 cm metagenome is presented in red. The 10-15 cm metagenome is presented in blue. Numbers are given as log(10) percentage of total reads in each metagenome.