Metagenomics of the microbiome of the jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata and the description of two new candidate taxa. Microbiome of the jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata

Four exemplars of the jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata were selected for deep metagenomic sequencing. After the assembly of the reads, the four metagenomes were submitted to binning approach and in all the cases we obtained one bin with high genome completion. By 16S rRNA gene sequence the genomes were affiliated to Simkania nevegensis. Furthermore, the jellyfish M4 and M1 rendered one bin sith goo completness affiliated with Spiroplasma lineage and Tenacibaculum lineage. In order to identify and quantify phylotypes detected we applied the CARD-FISH microscopy techniques synthetizing primers for the major groups.