Table 1.

Characteristics of the bacterial strains used to generate the inoculation consortium.

Bacterial identity	Closest relative	% identity from BLAST of X nt of the 16S rRNA gene	GenBank accession	Isolation source
Acinetobacter sp.	A. baumannii	99.9% from 1466 nt	MH744724	Healthy coral, GBR, Australia
Oceanospirillales isolate	Bacterioplanes sanyensis	99.7% from 1410 nt	MH744725	Healthy coral, GBR, Australia
Marinobacter sp.	M. sediminum	98.6% from 1512 nt	MK088251	Laboratory-bred anemone Exaiptasia pallida, Australia
Paracoccus marcusii	(Identified based on whole genome data)	–	MH744726	Healthy coral, GBR, Australia
Pseudoalteromonas sp.	P. shioyasakiensis	99.8% from 1403 nt	MK088250	Laboratory-bred anemone Exaiptasia pallida, Australia
Pseudovibrio denitrificans	(Identified based on whole genome data)	–	KX198136	Healthy coral, GBR, Australia
Vibrio harveyi	This is the type strain: DSM No 1963	–	X56578∗	Dead luminescing amphipod Talorchestria sp., United States

The references for these strains are specified in the main text. nt, nucleotides. ^∗GenBank accession number for the whole genome shotgun sequence: BAOD01000001.