Seasonal Mortality of Wild Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) Is Caused by a Virulent Clone of Vibrio (Listonella) anguillarum; Implications for Biosecurity along the Atlantic Coastal United States

Table 4

Number of sequence reads of the V3 and V4 regions of the 16S rDNA of the most abundant bacteria detected from brain (B) and kidney (K) tissue pools from moribund fish.

Bacterial species	B1	B2	B3	B4	K1	K2	K3	K4
V. anguillarum	37,470	39,144	40,198	33,437	76	99	13	249
Wolbachia sp.	440	218	221	931	2,127	4,598	3,220	4,495
Bacteroides sp.	270	126	53	555	1,352	4,212	2,128	2,110
Faecalibacterium sp.	48	66	49	242	1,366	349	2,565	986
Pseudomonas sp.	83	5	9	43	3,841	385	129	1,332

Percent identity within nucleotide sequence length was: V. anguillarum 99.8% (456 bp) multiple sequences, W. pipientis 99.3% (283 bp) Accession# CP037426, B. vulgatus 99.8% (454 bp) Accession# MT515977, F. prausnitzii 99.8% (434 bp) multiple sequences, and Pseudomonas sp. 99.8% (456 bp) multiple sequences.