Figure 2
From: Social odours covary with bacterial community in the anal secretions of wild meerkats
NMDS plots based on Bray-Curtis distances in (a) the chemical composition and (b) the bacterial community of anal-pouch mixtures, showing separation between meerkats by their sex and social class (2D stress of 0.12 and 0.18, for chemical composition and bacterial community, respectively). In (a), the two meerkats that were sampled twice are denoted by the letters a and b, referring to the nearest two solid blue and two open red symbols, respectively.
