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Fig. 4 | Microbiome

Fig. 4

From: Coral microbiome composition along the northern Red Sea suggests high plasticity of bacterial and specificity of endosymbiotic dinoflagellate communities

Fig. 4

Venn diagram illustrating the number of bacterial OTUs that are present in at least 95% of the samples at each site and coral species. The graph shows the number of core OTUs shared among coral species (a). Only five OTUs were common between six corals species and seawater, but seawater samples had 72 exclusive OTUs that were not found in the SML. Similarly, eight OTUs (49.7% of total bacterial abundance) were common between sites (b), five of them were shared between all species in addition to a Vibrio sp., a Gplla sp., and the photosynthetic Erythrobacter sp. Importantly, each site and coral species had a small number of exclusive OTUs (outer region in diagram)

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