The Vertical Distribution of Sediment Archaeal Community in the “Black Bloom” Disturbing Zhushan Bay of Lake Taihu

Table 2

The top 13 most abundant families in all of the samples from the five sediment layers.

Class	Family	Percentage (%)
MCG	MCG_norank	22.78
Halobacteria	DHVEG-6	20.10
Unclassified Archaea	Unclassified Archaea	19.94
Methanobacteria	Methanobacteriaceae	14.22
Unclassified Euryarchaeota	Unclassified Euryarchaeota	7.50
Halobacteria	MEG	2.36
Group C3	Group C3_norank	1.80
Thermoplasmata	ASC21	1.54
Halobacteria	DSEG	1.33
Thermoplasmata	MBGD and DHVEG-1	1.12
Methanomicrobia	ANME-1a	0.58
Methanomicrobia	Methanosarcinaceae	0.54
SCG	SCG_norank	0.53

Note. “Percentage” was the average value of all samples; Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotic Group (MCG); Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Gp-6 (DHVEG-6); Miscellaneous Euryarchaeotic Group (MEG); Deep Sea Euryarchaeotic Group (DSEG); Marine Benthic Group D (MBGD); anaerobic methanotroph (ANME).