Fig. 4From: Microbial composition of spiny ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Polyrhachis) across their geographic rangeNonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS) plot illustrating bacterial community structure among Polyrhachis subgenera (Bray-Curtis similarity index). As this analysis requires at least two representatives from each group, the subgenera that had only one representative were grouped into a category “Mixed”. The distance between bacterial communities represents their underlying distance in the multivariate space. Axis 1 = 0.901, axis 2 = 0.03547, and stress 0.044, a good indicating value, which means that the analysis of NMs obtained an informative representation of the bacterial community. The dots were colored according to the subgenera they belong. Note that although complex, there is a structure of subgeneraBack to article page