Fig. 1
From: Foliar-feeding insects acquire microbiomes from the soil rather than the host plant
Diversity and community structure of bacteria and fungi in caterpillars, leaves, roots and soil. a number of bacterial phyla and b number of fungal classes of caterpillar, leaf, root and soil samples. Caterpillars were kept on intact plants or on detached leaves. The Tukey box-and-whisker-plots depict median number of phyla and classes in each compartment and variation is shown in the scatter. The raw (Chao1) diversity data is presented in Supplementary Fig. 2, and phyla and their relative abundance in Supplementary Fig. 3 (bacteria) and Supplementary Fig. 4 (fungi). Asterisks (***) indicate significant differences of GLM at the level of p < 0.001. c, d Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) of bacterial (c) and fungal (d) communities. The clustering is based on Bray-Curtis similarity and the resulting 2D stress for the best solution is 0.16 (bacteria) and 0.19 (fungi). Source data for a and b are provided in a Source Data file
