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Fig. 6 | Microbiome

Fig. 6

From: Metagenomics-resolved genomics provides novel insights into chitin turnover, metabolic specialization, and niche partitioning in the octocoral microbiome

Fig. 6

Presumed niche partitioning and metabolic interaction in bacterial symbionts of azooxanthellate octocorals. The schematic overview was inferred from the functions encoded by the MAGs of the 25 bacterial symbionts recovered from healthy E. gazella, E. verrucosa, and L. sarmentosa samples. Octocoral symbionts presumably participate in carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling, amino acid, and B vitamin provision, chemical defense, and oxidative and osmotic stress protection. While Endozoicomonadaceae possess endo-chitinases to break down large chitin polymers; others, including Metamycoplasmataceae and Ca. Thioglobaceae MAGs, possess exo-chitinase and polysaccharide deacetylase genes, respectively, suggesting substrate cross-feeding in the octocoral holobiont. The figure was created in BioRender.com

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