FIG 1.

Principal-coordinate analysis (PCoA) plots based on weighted UniFrac distances of A. hyacinthus- and seawater associated bacterial communities across four sample types, i.e., WS-infected corals (WS) (red symbols), healthy tissues on WS-infected corals (HD) (purple symbols), healthy tissues on healthy corals (healthy) (green symbols), and surface seawater (seawater) (blue symbols), and five seasonal sampling time points, i.e., spring 2010 (upward-pointing triangles), summer 2011 (downward-pointing triangles), winter 2011 (diamonds), spring 2011 (squares), and summer 2012 (circles). Proximity of samples on the PCoA plot illustrates similarity of bacterial communities.