**Appendix A**

**Table A1.** Detailed previous treatment procedures in Table 1 (summary of previous treatment processes for decontamination in DNA analyses).


\* Underlined treatment and procedure: the case of the application of bleach for decontamination

**Figure A1.** Results of applying Euk universal eukaryotic primers on each rotifer species (Raw samples: collected in the fresh water samples in the Shin-gal reservoir, fixation samples: stored in the laboratory).
