Fig. 7: Species-specific bacterial community.

Relative abundances of bacterial orders for each coral fragment exposed to either healthy O. franksi (i.e., control), or a white plague-infected O. franksi (i.e., disease treatment). Only bacterial orders with relative abundances greater than 3% were colored individually. All other bacterial orders were grouped into the category “other.sum”. Paired fragments that are genotypically identical that came from the same colony are oriented vertically to visualize how the microbiome changes from control to disease treatment exposure. The red square between vertical columns represents the genotype pair that displayed an active white plague lesion (disease-infected) by the end of the experiment.