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Table 1 Summary of OTUs observed in RNA sequencing verses 16S amplicon sequencing of Silk, Venom, and Ovary glands in Widow related spiders

From: Spider phylosymbiosis: divergence of widow spider species and their tissues’ microbiomes

Sample ID

Tissue Type

16 s OTUs

RNAseq OTUs

Bacterial Hits (RNAseq)

Shared OTUs

L. hesperus

Silk Glands

55

1

10,512

0

L. hesperus

Venom Glands

79

24

152,364

12

L. hesperus

Ovary

68

20

39,829

6

L. geometricus

Silk Glands

53

8

47,646

4

L. geometricus

Venom Glands

73

18

1,181,879

10

L. geometricus

Ovary

71

10

519,983

6

S. grosa

Silk Glands

159

8

1,123,096

6

S. grosa

Venom Glands

180

26

1,122,123

16

S. grosa

Ovary

142

32

354,499

16

P. tepidariorum

Silk Glands

98

12

191,609

5

P. tepidariorum

Venom Glands

130

34

112,093

13

P. tepidariorum

Ovary

96

1

44,772

0