The skin microbiota of the axolotl Ambystoma altamirani is highly influenced by metamorphosis and seasonality but not by pathogen infection

Table 2 Amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) defining the bacterial core of the microbiota of metamorphic and pre-metamorphic A. altamirani

	ASV ID	Taxonomy at family level	Relative abundance	Persistence
Metamorphic	9936daae333af6e517a9deb4b9e18ffa	Pseudomonadaceae	13.81	95.12
	6d0c9d0395e6a2a7667eb0b07c17a275	Burkholderiaceae	1.40	97.56
	17d60505100c3cf44d4f9fad620d1636	Pseudomonadaceae	0.73	93.90
	be8eb25874b4202cf98050dbadeeb7ce	Burkholderiaceae	0.33	93.90
Pre-metamorphic	3c28f0caf9183357de05d1882a943f8e	Chitinophagaceae	25.03	96.84
Pre-metamorphic	ed5a79897d0f82525c3854759d384c26	Burkholderiaceae	20.75	98.42

ASVs were considered part of the skin bacterial core if they were present in ≥ 90% of the samples of metamorphic or pre-metamorphic axolotls

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