The study aimed to investigate the different in the susceptibility of coral taxa and profiling coral-associated microbial prokaryotes and eukaryotes (microbiome). Corals of four genera (Acropora sp.,
Metagenome sequencing of coral microbial communities from various locations to study how coral hosts communicate with their associated microbial community
Tissue samples of octocorals and antipatharian soft corals were collected from geological features, including sea mounts and mineral seeps, in the Great Australian Bight at depths between 1000-3000 m,