title: Halophila stipulacea bacteriome 4-28m Gulf of Aqaba
design: The bacterial communities associated with the leaves and rhizomes-roots of Halophila stipulacea were collected from plants found along a depth gradient (4-28m) in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. The Power Soil® DNA isolation kit (Mo Bio, Carlsbad, CA, USA) was used and the universal primers Com1 (5’-CAGCAGCCGCGGTAATAC-3’) and Com2 (5’-CCGTCAATTCCTTTGAGTTT-3’) were used to amplify the 16S rRNA gene.