Responses of the coral reef cryptobiome to environmental gradients in the Red Sea

• Rodrigo Villalobos ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rodrigo.villalobos@kaust.edu.sa (RV); Susana.carvalho@kaust.edu.sa (SC)

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Eva Aylagas,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Red Sea Development Company, AlRaidah Digital City, Saudi Arabia

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• Joanne I. Ellis,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Waikato University, Tauranga, New Zealand

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• John K. Pearman,

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

  Affiliation Coastal and Freshwater Group, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2237-9723

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• Holger Anlauf,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Seychelles and Blue Economy Research Institute Anse Royal, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles

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• Joao Curdia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Diego Lozano-Cortes,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Saudi Aramco, Environmental Protection Department, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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• Alejandro Mejia,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Florian Roth,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stockholm University, Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4004-5863

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• Michael L. Berumen,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Susana Carvalho

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rodrigo.villalobos@kaust.edu.sa (RV); Susana.carvalho@kaust.edu.sa (SC)

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1300-1953

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