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. 2016 Feb 29;7:204. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00204

Table 1.

The total number of microbes in coral tissue and mucus, samples from Qit’at Benaya inshore reef and Umm Al-Maradim offshore reef system on various sampling dates.

Site Date Coral host Total count for microbes Mean (min–max) SD

Coral tissue (×109 cell g-1) Coral mucus (×109 cell ml-1)
Inshore reef March 2008 Coscinaraea columna 7.7 (7.0-8.6) 0.7 15.1 (14.3-17.1) 1.2
Platygyra daedalea 5.1 (4.4-6.1) 0.6 12.0 (11.7-12.4) 0.2
Porites harrisoni 4.4 (3.8-4.8) 0.3 15.6 (14.9-16.7) 0.8
October 2008 Platygyra daedalea 7.3 (6.4-9.5) 1.2 14.8 (13.6-15.6) 0.7
March 2009 Platygyra daedalea 8.3 (6.3-9.9) 1.3 17.2(14.4-19.3) 2.4
Offshore reef October 2008 Platygyra daedalea 6.9 (6.4-7.5) 0.4 7.3 (7.1-7.5) 0.1

Min, minimum; max, maximum; SD, standard deviation.