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

Table 1 Summary of abundant (> 1% of total abundance) and core (present in at least 95% of the samples regardless of abundance) microbial OTUs in the surface mucus layer of six coral species (including water) collected from two depths across the latitudinal gradient in the northern Red Sea

OTUs	Phylum	Class	Genus	Total no. of sequences	Relative abundance %	Core	Abundant
OTU1	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Alteromonas	5,851,880	27.4	+	+
OTU2	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Pseudoalteromonas	2,208,755	10.4	+	+
OTU94	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Pseudoalteromonas	997,177	4.7	+	+
OTU4	Proteobacteria	α-proteobacteria	Ruegeria	722,904	3.4	–	+
OTU15	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Vibrio	470,821	2.2	+	+
OTU29	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Vibrio	467,620	2.2	–	+
OTU6	Bacteroidetes	Flavobacteriia	Flavobacteriaceae	400,646	1.9	–	+
OTU14	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Vibrio	378,498	1.8	+	+
OTU7	Proteobacteria	α-proteobacteria	Rhodobacteraceae	298,855	1.4	–	+
OTU8586	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Endozoicomonas	252,966	1.2	–	+
OTU10	Proteobacteria	α-proteobacteria	Erythrobacter	252,405	1.2	+	+
OTU32	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Pseudoalteromonas	236,331	1.1	+	+
OTU11	Proteobacteria	γ-proteobacteria	Unclassified γ-proteobacteria	226,023	1.1	–	+
OTU80	Proteobacteria	α-proteobacteria	Candidatus Pelagibacter	221,409	1.0	–	+
OTU12	Cyanobacteria	Cyanobacteria	Gplla	190,784	0.9	+	–

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