Fig. 4
From: Reciprocal influence of soil, phyllosphere, and aphid microbiomes
Effect of aphid infestation on phyllosphere-associated microbiomes established in three different soil microbiomes. Bacterial (top, a–d) and fungal (bottom, e–h) species richness (a, d), Shannon diversity (b, e), abundance based on qPCR of 16S rRNA (c) and ITS read counts (g), and community composition d, h of phyllosphere communities. Global p refers to differences if all phyllosphere samples were combined. 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. The points located outside of the whiskers of the box plot (grey) represent outliers. X-axes labels of top boxplots a–c correspond to x-axes labels of lower boxplots (e–g). Results of the global statistical analyses for the factor ‘aphid infestation’ (WRT: Wilcoxon signed-rank test) for all phyllosphere samples combined are displayed above each panel, soil community-specific values are displayed within the graph. BCD: Bray–Curtis distance