Antibiotic suppression of Pocillopora coral bacteria microbiomes

Corals are important model organisms for understanding invertebrate host-microbe interactions; however, the lack of controlled experimental approaches for manipulating coral-bacteria associations is a major limitation towards a mechanistic understanding of these relationships. In this study, experimental treatments with a combination of ampicillin, streptomycin, and ciprofloxacin antibiotics were used to reduce the bacteria community diversity of fragments of fourteen Pocillopora coral genotypes.