Table 5 Over-/under-representation of bacterial families of OTUs differentially abundant between health states of P. duerdeni and P. lutea, and congregated fold-change differences between healthy (HH) and diseased (DD) specimens (only families that were represented by at least five bacterial taxa were considered)

From: Bacterial profiling of White Plague Disease in a comparative coral species framework

Bacterial family

OTU count ANOVA (total 629)

OTU count PhyloChip (total 14 213)

Chi-square

P-value

Mean fold-change difference between HH vs DD P. duedeni

Mean fold-change difference between HH vs DD P. lutea

More abundant in HH

 Aquabacteriaceae

12

134

0.1030

ns

1.80

2.60

 Bacillaceae

9

211

0.3936

ns

1.15

1.21

 Burkholderiaceae

7

332

0.0000

ns

1.16

2.19

 Comamonadaceae

6

903

18.3660

<0.0001

1.69

2.89

 Enterobacteriaceae

20

801

6.4893

<0.01

1.41

2.07

 Moraxellaceae

10

163

0.6779

ns

2.35

2.66

 Streptococcaceae

23

209

17.3175

<0.0001

2.39

1.91

 Xanthomonadaceae

7

120

0.2089

ns

2.48

3.29

More abundant in DD

 Alteromonadaceae

5

95

0.0171

ns

1.35

1.61

 Clostridiaceae

5

176

0.6491

ns

1.78

6.41

 Colwelliaceae

6

20

18.3660

<0.0001

3.94

4.08

 Corynebacteriaceae

17

632

3.9726

<0.05

1.13

2.17

 Flavobacteriaceae

27

629

0.0035

ns

3.18

2.97

 Lachnospiraceae

35

1508

15.9206

<0.0001

1.22

1.73

 Oceanospirillaceae

9

264

23.8756

<0.0001

5.35

7.84

 Pelagibacteraceae

8

258

0.7250

ns

2.55

2.33

 Pseudomonadaceae

57

797

12.6293

<0.001

3.12

4.66

 Rhizobiaceae

11

97

8.0640

<0.01

3.58

1.93

 Rhodobacteraceae

178

355

1150.8208

<0.0001

5.28

7.11

 Rhodospirillaceae

9

36

0.0054

ns

2.39

2.79

 Rikenellaceae II

7

146

3.3470

ns

1.83

1.55

 Ruminococcaceae

11

616

9.3196

<0.01

1.15

1.01

 Sphingomonadaceae

5

142

0.0901

ns

1.75

1.30

 unclassified

25

618

0.1224

ns

1.73

1.48

 Vibrionaceae

12

310

4.8116

<0.05

5.46

4.38

  1. Abbreviations: ANOVA, analysis of variance; NS, not significant; OTU, operational taxonomic unit.