Fig. 3
From: Bacterial alkylquinolone signaling contributes to structuring microbial communities in the ocean
Nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordination displaying microbial communities over the course of the bloom. Ordination of heterotrophic prokaryote communities based on 16S rRNA amplicon sequence variants (a) visualized by non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) of Bray-Curtis distance. Triangles and circles correspond to particle-associated (> 1 μm size) and free-living communities, respectively. Symbol color denotes experimental time point. Relative abundances of heterotrophic prokaryote orders (≥ 1%) determined by 16S rRNA amplicon sequence variants for particle-associated (> 1 μm size) (b) and free-living (c) communities. X-axes indicate experimental time points.