Diversity of epiphytic bacterial communities on male and female Sargassum thunbergii

AMB Express

Table 2 Composition of the epiphytic bacterial ASVs of male and female S. thunbergii

Sample	Phylum	Class	Order	Family	Genus
Male	21	41	73	124	184
Female	18	36	67	111	169
Features sequences of both sexes	16	31	61	103	145
Only found on males	5	10	12	21	39
Only found on females	2	5	6	8	24
Total	23	46	79	132	208