Geographical variations in bacterial communities associated with soft coral Scleronephthya gracillimum

• Seonock Woo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seonock Woo, Shan-Hua Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Geoje, Republic of Korea, Faculty of Marine Environmental Science, University of Science and Technology (UST), Geoje, Republic of Korea

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• Shan-Hua Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seonock Woo, Shan-Hua Yang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hsing-Ju Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yu-Fang Tseng,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Sung-Jin Hwang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Eco-Biological Science, Woosuk University, Jincheon, Republic of Korea

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• Stephane De Palmas,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Vianney Denis,

  Roles Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yukimitsu Imahara,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Wakayama Laboratory, Biological Institute on Kuroshio, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

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• Fumihito Iwase,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Shikoku Marine Life Laboratory, Otsuki-Town, Kochi, Japan

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• Seungshic Yum,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Geoje, Republic of Korea, Faculty of Marine Environmental Science, University of Science and Technology (UST), Geoje, Republic of Korea

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• Sen-Lin Tang

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sltang@gate.sinica.edu.tw

  Affiliation Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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