Metagenomics of the micro biome of the jellyfish Cotylorhiza tubercular and the description of three new candidate taxa

Four exemplars of the jellyfish Cotylorhiza tubercular 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. Moreover, the jellyfish M4 and M1 rendered one bin with good completeness affiliated with Spiroplasma lineage and Tenacibaculum lineage. In order to identify and quantify phylotypes detected we applied the CARD-FISH microscopy techniques synthesizing primers for the major groups.