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. 2018 Nov 22;9:4921. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07275-x

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Distribution of Endozoicomonas-like bacteria across coral hosts. The heatmap illustrates patterns of association between Endozoicomonas-like bacteria and coral hosts. Colored cells represent the relative abundance of Endozoicomonas-like bacterial sequences (out of the total abundance of Endozoicomonas-like bacteria) in each coral host, plotted on a scale from 0% (white) to 100% (dark blue). The x-axis is arranged by coral host phylogeny, which is shown at the top. The y-axis is arranged by the phylogeny of the most abundant Endozoicomonas-like bacterial sequences observed in host tissues, which is shown to the left (Bayesian posterior support values are shown for clades of interest). Clade HG (Host Generalist; green box) is prevalent in diverse species spanning both the Complex and Robust clades. Clades HS-R (Host-specific: Robust; pink box) and HS-C (Host-specific: Complex; yellow box) are composed of host-specific Endozoicomonas-like lineages. On the right, the host organisms of each sequence variant’s perfect matches in NCBI’s nr database are shown. Cultured and named strains are identified with abbreviations (EE: Endozoicomonas elysicola, EM: Endozoicomonas montiporae, EG: Endozoicomonas gorgoniicola, EN: Endonucleobacter bathymodioli). Sequences in clades HS-R and HS-C are consistently associated with Robust and Complex clade corals, respectively (see Supplementary Fig. 5 for more detail)