Table 1.

Comparison of microbial sequences, the estimated operational taxonomic units (OTUs) richness, Shannon’s indexes of the microbial 16S V4 sequences for clustering at 97% sequences similarity from the sequencing analysis.

Species of Coral Fishes	Sequence Read	Avg Len (bp)	OTUs	Chao1	Shannon	Simpson	ACE
Oxycheilinus unifasciatus	53195	461	106	54	2.89	0.71	54.45
Cephalopholis urodeta	69114	459	125	67	2.96	0.77	67.81
Lutjanus kasmira	52213	458	80	53	2.55	0.65	53.84
Gnathodentex aurolineatus	51425	454	72	46	2.63	0.65	47.75