Fig. 1: Experimental setup. | The ISME Journal

Fig. 1: Experimental setup.

From: Greater functional diversity and redundancy of coral endolithic microbiomes align with lower coral bleaching susceptibility

Fig. 1

Coral fragments from G. edwardsi and P. lutea colonies (n = 6) were subjected to a heat stress experiment followed by a 24 h incubation with stable isotope tracers before sample collection and sectioning. Subsequently, we measured the hyperspectral profile of each section and conducted 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, metagenomics, and NanoSIMS analyses to characterize the endolithic microbial communities and their associated metabolic potential as well as differential 13C and 15N assimilation under heat stress.

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