bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.16.384644; this version posted November 16, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 A core of functionally complementary bacteria colonizes oysters in Pacific Oyster Mortality 2 Syndrome. 3 4 Aude Lucasson1#, Xing Luo2#, Shogofa Mortaza2#, Julien de Lorgeril1, Eve Toulza1, Bruno Petton3, 5 Jean-Michel Escoubas1, Camille Clerissi4, Lionel Dégremont5, Yannick Gueguen1, Delphine 6 Destoumieux-Garzόn1, Annick Jacq2,& and Guillaume Mitta1,& 7 8 1 IHPE, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Place E. 9 Bataillon, CC080, 34095 Montpellier, France and 58 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan, France 10 2 Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198, 11 Gif-sur-Yvette, France 12 3 Ifremer, LEMAR UMR 6539, UBO, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, 11 presqu’île du vivier, 29840 Argenton- 13 en-Landunvez, France 14 4 PSL Université Paris: EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Université de Perpignan, 52 15 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France 16 5 Ifremer, SG2M, LGPMM, Avenue du Mus de Loup, 17930 La Tremblade, France 17 18 19 20 #These authors contributed equally: Aude Lucasson, Xing Luo and Shogofa Mortaza 21 & These two last authors contributed equally: Annick Jacq and Guillaume Mitta. Correspondence and 22 requests for materials should be addressed to A.J. (email:
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