3.11. Carbon processes
Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase (ppc) gene involves in carbon fixation
in prokaryotes. This gene was comparatively higher than the other
bio-geochemical genes observed in the CAB. While the CAB ofCentropages sp. have a high proportion of ppc gene, The CAB ofPleuromamma spp., Temora spp., Acartia spp andCalanus spp. had the proportion in the descending order (Figure
S5a). Also, the CAB of Centropages sp. contains have a high
proportion of chitinase gene [EC:3.2.1.14] and the least was
observed in the CAB of Calanus spp. (Figure S5b).