Spatial and Species Variations in Bacterial Communities Associated with Corals from the Red Sea as Revealed by Pyrosequencing

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  NJ tree showing the relatedness of the 18S rRNA gene sequences of the soft coral samples compared with that of the references (Fig. S1).

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  Cluster analysis based on the TRFLP analysis of the coral-associated bacterial communities (Fig. S2).

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  Classification of bacteria at the phylum level (Fig. S3a).

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  Classification of bacteria at the order level (Fig. S3b).

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  Legends to Fig. S1, S2, and S3.

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  Barcoded primers for obtaining bacterial 16S rDNA amplicons from the coral samples (Table S1); similarity-based OTUs and species diversity and richness estimates of the coral-associated microbial communities at a dissimilarity level of 3% (Table S2); best BLAST matches of representative sequences of the 10 most abundant OTUs associated with the coral species (Table S3); summary of RDA (Table S4); correlation between other environmental parameters measured in this study and salinity and depth (Table S5).

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  Supplemental Materials and Methods.

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