Selective shaping of prokaryotic communities and core symbiont maintenance suggest large-scale aquarium facilities as reservoirs of microbiome diversity in octocorals.

Moreover, a PERMANOVA adjusted for differences in dispersion confirmed that the observed effect of sample processing strategy was marginally non-significant ( p -value = 0.0527, F = 5.50, R 2 = 0.38; Supplementary Table S7 ). 3.4 Litophyton and sediment samples maintain dominant bacterial taxa in aquarium settings The Gammaproteobacteria class typically dominated the prokaryotic communities of Litophyton specimens both in the aquarium (average relative abundance of 51%) and the Red Sea (31%), although the Red Sea presented higher variability between samples ( Figure 3A ).

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