We collected specimens of Ulva sp. (green algae), Saccharina sp. (brown algae), Grateloupia sp., and Gelidium sp. (both red algae) during all four seasons from a co
Cleaned raw 16S paired-end sequences were imported into the QIIME2 pipeline v. 2022.2.0. Leftover primers and adapters’ sequences were removed through cutadapt. The amplicon sequence variants (ASV) ta