Crown-of-thorns sea star Acanthaster cf. solaris has tissue-characteristic microbiomes with potential roles in health and reproduction

Agriculture & Biology

• Acanthaster 100%
• Asteroidea 73%
• microbiome 58%
• Spirochaetes 29%
• tissues 26%
• corals 25%
• Oceanospirillales 22%
• gonads 21%
• dysbiosis 18%
• Arcobacter 18%
• Vibrionaceae 18%
• Mollicutes 17%
• Spiroplasma 17%
• Echinodermata 14%
• integument 12%
• bacterial communities 12%
• symbionts 11%
• gastrointestinal system 11%
• microscopy 11%
• ingestion 9%
• phylogeny 6%
• bacteria 6%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Starfish 92%
• Crowns 65%
• Microbiota 59%
• Reproduction 58%
• Health 29%
• Anthozoa 24%
• Spirochaetales 22%
• Gonads 19%
• Spiroplasma 15%
• Arcobacter 15%
• Vibrionaceae 15%
• Tenericutes 14%
• Foot Diseases 13%
• Dysbiosis 10%
• Individuality 8%
• Causality 7%
• Disease Outbreaks 7%
• Foot 7%
• Microscopy 7%
• Eating 6%
• Bacteria 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• tissue 43%
• health 41%
• sea 32%
• relative abundance 27%
• coral 27%
• species complex 19%
• echinoderm 18%
• symbiont 18%
• microscopy 12%
• phylogenetics 12%
• bacterium 9%
• loss 7%