NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) accession numbers for fastq sequence files of 16S amplicons from a longitudinal study of SCTLD at St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands from 2020 to 2024

In St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, a longitudinal study of Colpophyllia natans was conducted. Six corals per site (two sites) were tagged and repeatedly sampled from July 2020 through March 2024, during which time, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) arrived on the reefs. As the tagged corals contracted SCTLD, coral tissue and near-coral seawater (2-5 centimeters from colony surface) were collected. Coral tissue was separated from the coral skeleton, and the seawater was filtered through 0.2-micrometer (µm) filters. DNA was extracted from the tissue and filters, and 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing was done to determine the bacteria and archaea communities that live within and near the corals. The goal of the study was to determine how coral-associated microbiomes are affected by the arrival of SCTLD through time. This data set contains the fastq files of the 16S amplicon sequencing of the coral tissue and near-coral seawater communities. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) SRA: SRP550314; BioProject: PRJNA1194595