. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 29.

Published in final edited form as: Mar Ecol Prog Ser. 2020 Oct 29;653:57–75. doi: 10.3354/meps13487

Table 4.

Bacterial taxa (class level) showing significantly (FDR p < 0.05) greater association with either oyster EF or water over one annual cycle.

Phylum	Class	Oyster EF Community Mean	Water Community Mean
Acidobacteria	Acidobacteria-6	0.03%	0.00%
Acidobacteria	Holophagae	0.03%	0.00%

Actinobacteria	Actinobacteria	6.61%	9.37%

Bacteroidetes	[Saprospirae]	0.24%	2.23%
	Bacteroidia	4.06%	0.06%
	Cytophagia	0.34%	4.01%
	Flavobacteriia	4.55%	17.63%
	Sphingobacteriia	0.19%	0.83%
	Other	0.03%	2.17%

Chloroflexi	Anaerolineae	0.01%	0.05%

Cyanobacteria	Nostocophycideae	0.00%	0.14%

Firmicutes	Bacilli	0.55%	0.00%
Firmicutes	Clostridia	0.26%	0.00%

Nitrospirae	Nitrospira	0.29%	0.00%

Proteobacteria	Betaproteobacteria	5.74%	9.29%
	Deltaproteobacteria	2.20%	1.01%
	Epsilonproteobacteria	3.91%	0.06%
	Gammaproteobacteria	13.48%	7.40%

Spirochaetes	[Brachyspirae]	1.40%	0.01%
Spirochaetes	Spirochaetes	0.29%	0.02%

Unassigned	Other	8.20%	1.49%