Fig. 3: Chemical diversity of coral reef holobiont sample types and genera show the degree of host specificity at both phylum and generic levels. | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: Chemical diversity of coral reef holobiont sample types and genera show the degree of host specificity at both phylum and generic levels.

From: Microbiomes and metabolomes of dominant coral reef primary producers illustrate a potential role for immunolipids in marine symbioses

Fig. 3: Chemical diversity of coral reef holobiont sample types and genera show the degree of host specificity at both phylum and generic levels.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Venn diagrams illustrate chemical richness among hosts: a Counts of common and unique ion features among coral (n = 42), CCA (n = 37), and macroalgae (n = 24). b Comparison between Porites (n = 16), Monitipora (n = 13), and Pocillopora (n = 13) coral genera and c Comparison between Halimeda (n = 7), Galaxaura (n = 4), and Jania (n = 4) macroalgae genera (“other” refers to the less sampled algae genera (n = 9)). Ordinations (nonmetric multidimensional scaling of Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrices from 8054 ion feature relative abundances) illustrate compositional differences among d metabolites from each sample type (PERMANOVA R2 = 0.16; p < 0.001) and metabolites from genera of coral (e) and macroalgae (f).

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