Fig. 4

Acontia bacterial communities differ from whole anemone communities. a: PCoA visualization of beta-diversity of the bacterial communities in acontia (circles) and whole anemones (triangles) from genotypes AIMS1–4, based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrices on 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding data. Each point is an individual sample. Whole anemone data were used with permission from [47]. For each genotype, bacterial communities were different between acontia and whole anemones (PERMANOVA, 999 permutations). b: Relative abundance of five genera that were found to be enriched in acontia (versus whole anemone) based on an indicator value analysis. These five genera were the only ones appearing in acontia from all four genotypes. See Additional file 5 for full data