Fig. 3
From: Reciprocal influence of soil, phyllosphere, and aphid microbiomes
Effect of soil microbiome on pooled (n = 4) aphid microbiomes. Bacterial (top, a–d) and fungal (bottom, e–h) species richness (a, e), Shannon diversity (b, f), abundance based on qPCR of 16S rRNA (c) and ITS read counts (g), and community composition (d, h). Box plots show the median (horizontal line), the lower and upper bounds of each box plot denote the first and third quartiles and whiskers above and below the box plot show 1.5 times the interquartile range. Points located outside of whiskers (grey) represent outliers. Ordination plots of bacterial (d) and fungal h community composition based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity index with corresponding colors (aphids from clayey soil samples: dark blue circles; mixed: light blue triangles; sandy: pink squares). Bacterial community composition was calculated with aphid primary endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola. X-axes labels of top boxplots a–c correspond to x-axes labels of lower boxplots (e–g). Results of the global statistical analyses (a-c and e–g: Kruskal–Wallis test; d and h: PERMANOVA) for the factor ‘soil community’ are displayed above each panel, FDR-corrected p-values of pairwise comparisons (Wilcoxon signed-rank test) for alpha diversity differences and abundance a–c, e–g added within the graph (*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; ns not significant). KWT Kruskal–Wallis test