Table 2.

The relative frequency of the major phyla of Bacteria (calculated with ANOVA) associated with healthy corals (H) and initial (DI), intermediate (DM), and advanced (DA) stages of tissue necrosis, and the p-value.

Phylum	H (%)	DI (%)	DM (%)	DA (%)	p-value
Cyanobacteria	50.54	15.81	20.45	20.4	5.11E−02
Proteobacteria	17.87	45.83	32.78	35.92	2.15E−01
Bacteroidetes	2.81	22.37	29.66	24.98	6.53E−03
Actinobacteria	1.82	0.83	0.31	1.38	9.45E−04
Firmicutes	0.99	0.11	0.01	0.04	4.29E−01
Planctomycetes	0.6	2.33	2.04	2.02	1.62E−01
Verrucomicrobia	0.22	0.18	0.26	0.37	4.67E−02
Epsilonbacteraeota	0.14	0.002	0.02	0.02	7.70E−01
Lentisphaerae	0.09	0.62	1.46	0.91	5.82E−01
Chloroflexi	0.08	0.34	0.47	0.32	2.17E−01
Fusobacteria	0.07	0.03	0.16	0.09	2.15E−01
Nitrospinae	0.04	0.01	0.03	0.04	4.41E−01
Acidobacteria	0.03	0.28	0.08	0.24	7.84E−01
Nitrospirae	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.05	2.14E−01
Kiritimatiellaeota	0.003	0.04	0.07	0.05	7.47E−01
Unclassified Bacteria	24.7	10.77	11.89	12.84	2.75E−01
Total	100	99.57	99.69	99.68