Table 2.
Bacterial assemblages based on 16S rRNA pyrosequencing libraries from coral mucus and seawater
| Phylum, class, or order | % of sequences (total n) in phylum, class, or order from sample areaa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia |
Mexican Caribbean |
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| HA (1,264) | HP (924) | HSW (1,083) | SA (1,110) | SP (1,169) | SSW (820) | MA (1,887) | MP (635) | MSW (461) | |
| Actinobacteria | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
| Bacteroidetes | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Firmicutes | 16.5 | 6.4 | 0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 24.1 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| Clostridiales | 16.0 | 5.4 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 7.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Bacilli | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 16.7 | 2.7 | 2.2 |
| Unclassified Firmicutes | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Fusobacteria | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Proteobacteria | 4.4 | 2.4 | 20.0 | 59.0 | 54.3 | 67.7 | 28.3 | 14.0 | 43.2 |
| Alphaproteobacteria | |||||||||
| Caulobacterales | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.7 |
| Rhizobiales | 0.2 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 3.3 |
| Rhodobacterales (not including Silicibacter spp. or Sulfitobacter spp.) | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 6.6 | 5.4 | 3.9 | 11.7 | 7.2 | 2.2 |
| Silicibacter spp. | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 1.3 |
| Sulfitobacter spp. | 3.2 | 1.2 | 18.2 | 48.3 | 47.3 | 61.8 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Rhodospirillales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sphingomonadales | 0.2 | 0 | 0.2 | 4.0 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0 | 31.9 |
| Unclassified Alphaproteobacteria | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 |
| Betaproteobacteria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 0 |
| Gammaproteobacteria | 69.7 | 59.2 | 70.1 | 31.2 | 35.2 | 23.6 | 37.0 | 76.1 | 26.7 |
| Alteromonadales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.3 | 9.1 | 0.4 |
| Oceanospirillales (not including Halomonas spp.) | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 0.2 |
| Halomonas spp. | 2.0 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 5.6 | 49.0 | 0.4 |
| Pseudomonadales (not including Acinetobacter spp., Psychrobacter spp.) | 2.6 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 0.7 |
| Acinetobacter spp. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 6.9 | 12.8 |
| Psychrobacter spp. | 63.4 | 53.4 | 63.0 | 27.1 | 30.1 | 18.2 | 26.7 | 0.6 | 9.1 |
| Xanthomonadales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 |
| Vibrionales | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unclassified Gammaproteobacteria | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 1.1 |
| Verrucomicrobia; Verrucomicrobiales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cyanobacteria | 6.4 | 28.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 23.6 |
| Planctomycetes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Unclassified bacteria | 1.8 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 2.4 |
a
Samples were from Acropora formosa at Hoga (HA), Porites lutea at Hoga (HP), seawater at Hoga (HSW), Acropora formosa at Sampela (SA), Porites lutea at Sampela (SP), seawater at Sampela (SSW), Acropora palmata at the Mexican Caribbean (MA), Porites astreoides at the Mexican Caribbean (MP), and seawater at the Mexican Caribbean (MSW). Numbers in bold indicate that the group represents >5% of the community.