title: Microbiome of healthy Porites
design: DNA obtained from the coral fragments was used to amplify the V3-V4 hypervariable region of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. The barcoded primer sequences were as follows: 341F - 5- CCTACGGGNGGCWGCAG -3' (forward primer) and 805R- 5-GACTACHVGGGTATCTAATCC-3' (reverse primer)