Supplementary Files (Figures and Tables)

Supplementary files for publication: Figure S1: Stacked barplots of the mean relative abundances of the most abundant phyla. The x-axis labels refer to soft coral (CrS), hard coral (CrH), sea cucumber (SeC), flatworm (Flt), chiton (Cht), algae (Alg), the sponges Ptilocaulis sp. (SpT), Aaptos lobata (SpA), Cinachyrella sp. (SpC), and Paratetilla sp. (SpP), seawater (Wat), and sediment (Sed). Figure S2: Ordination showing the first two axes of the Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCO). a. total microbial community, b. virulence factors. Light grey symbols represent total microbial community or VFs with the symbol size representing their abundance (number of sequence reads). Symbol codes refer to: soft coral (CrS), hard coral (CrH), sea cucumber (SeC), flatworm (Flt), chiton (Cht), algae (Alg), the sponges Ptilocaulis sp. (SpT), Aaptos lobata (SpA), Cinachyrella sp. (SpC), and Paratetilla sp. (SpP), seawater (Wat), and sediment (Sed). Figure S3: Procrustes analysis comparing putative pathogens versus a. total microbial community, b. antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and c. virulence factor (Vfs) composition (arrowbase indicates the corresponding positions of the samples in the total microbial community or ARGs or VFs ordination (de Voogd et al. 2019) while arrowheads indicate the corresponding positions of the samples in the putative pathogens ordination). While d. represents the procrustes analysis comparing total microbial community versus a. ARGs (in this case: arrowbase indicates the corresponding positions of the samples in ARGs ordination while arrowheads indicate the corresponding positions of the samples in the total microbial community ordination). Symbol codes refer to: soft coral (CrS), hard coral (CrH), sea cucumber (SeC), flatworm (Flt), chiton (Cht), algae (Alg), the sponges Ptilocaulis sp. (SpT), Aaptos lobata (SpA), Cinachyrella sp. (SpC), and Paratetilla sp. (SpP), seawater (Wat), and sediment (Sed). Tables S1-S11.