Fig. 3From: Holobiont nitrogen control and its potential for eutrophication resistance in an obligate photosymbiotic jellyfishC. xamachana associated bacterial communities. a Stacked column plot representing the bacterial community composition associated with C. xamachana on the family level (SILVA database). Each colour represents one of the eight most abundant families; all 85 other families are grouped as ‘others’. b Clustering of C. xamachana samples based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of bacterial community abundances in a non-metric multi-dimensional scaling plot (NMDS; stress value < 0.078). Circles indicate 95 % confidence ranges. c Boxplots of pairwise Bray-Curtis dissimilarities of samples within treatments. Statistical comparisons are based on Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test (chi2 = 21.5, df = 2, p < 0.001). Letters indicate significant differences of pairwise comparisons (pHolm < 0.01). Treatment abbreviations are same as in Fig. 2Back to article page