FIG 5.

Different bacterial taxonomic structure of representative and highly persistent OTUs (core microbiome) with similar functional capabilities. For each coral species, representative OTUs (a) and core microbiome had a distinct taxonomic structure (Fig. 3c), but equivalent prediction on functional content (b and c). Functional prediction content generated from the relative abundance of KEGG Orthology (KO) genes, normalized and standardized by the total per individual.