Increased prokaryotic diversity in the Red Sea deep scattering layer.

"the raw sequences are available at https://www ebi ac uk/ena/browser/view/prjeb49545 as67 paired fastq sequences with consecutive accession numbers: erx7411972-erx7412038.; availability of data and materials the raw sequences used in this study are available at https://www ebi ac uk/ena/browser/view/prjeb49545 as67 paired fastq sequences with consecutive accession numbers: erx7411972-erx7412038. the metadata processed sequence counts and taxonomic affiliation data that support the findings of this study are openly available in zenodo at https://doi org/10 5281/zenodo 5816123 (huete-stauffer et al 2022). availability of data and materials the raw sequences used in this study are available at https://www ebi ac uk/ena/browser/view/prjeb49545"

"the code to replicate the main figures is available in the following repository https://github com/tamaramegan/redsea_dsl ."

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateNot applicable. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This work was funded through the Center Competitive Fund (2016–2018) from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. RL was supported by a Ramón y Cajal fellowship (RYC-2013-12554, MINECO, Spain)."