Fig. 6: NMDS ordination plot based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing showing differential clustering of egg mass bacterial communities compared to seagrass leaves, seagrass roots, seawater and sediment.
From: Microbial communities in developmental stages of lucinid bivalves
Sediment samples include material from three different depths: surface layer = 0–2 cm; intermediate layer = 2–5 cm; bottom layer = 5–8 cm. Seagrass rhizome debris sampled from the bottom layer was sieved and treated as a sediment sample. Analysis is based on data from Illumina sequencing and Bray–Curtis dissimilarities. Different study locations are given in different shapes whereas sample types are indicated by color (stress = 0.1796; k = 2).
