Figure 3
From: Endophytic bacterial communities are associated with leaf mimicry in the vine Boquila trifoliolata
Compared community composition of endophytic bacterial communities in field-collected leaf samples from the association between the model tree Rhaphithamnus spinosus and the mimetic vine Boquila trifoliolata. Groups: RS = leaves from R. spinosus [centroid: sky blue triangle], BR = Boquila leaves mimicking the tree leaves [centroid: orange square], and BT = Boquila leaves from the same individual vine but not mimicking the tree leaves [centroid: purple rhombus]. Patterns are based on a two-dimensional non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis (final stress = 0.063). Standard error ellipses show 95% confidence areas.
