Fig. 6

Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling plot (NMDS) of larval bacterial communities based on DGGE profile analysis. The 2D stress of the NMDS was 0.21. Graphs were generated from fourth-root transformed distances obtained using Bray-Curtis dissimilarity index. Data from the “Control”, “Susceptible”, “Intermediate” and “Tolerant” groups are represented in grey, green, blue and orange circles, respectively. Sample names and groups as in Fig. 2. Three-dimensional scaling plots representations of NMDS (3D stress = 0.14) are available in Additional file 6: Figure S3