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Fig. 1 | Microbiome

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From: A ubiquitous subcuticular bacterial symbiont of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, in the Indo-Pacific

Fig. 1

Geographic and anatomical distributions of COTS individuals and the COTS body parts analysed in this study. The seventeen locations where the COTS individuals were collected (a) and the dissected body parts of COTS for the analyses (b) are shown. The dashed yellow line (b) indicates the dissection line for the cross-sectional view. c Details of the samples used in each analysis are shown: [1] 16S rRNA metabarcoding, [2] phylogenetic analysis using the full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences, [3] PCR screening and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene sequences of COTS27, [4] FISH analysis, and [5] hologenome sequencing analysis. *1: This analysis was performed in triplicate for each sample. *2: The same individuals were used in analyses [1, 2]

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