Fig. 2.

Microbiota composition in Drosophila differs significantly between microbial slurries administered to homologous and heterologous host species. a Design of reciprocal transfer experiments between closely related species (Transfer-1) and distantly related species (Transfer-2). b Principal coordinates analysis plots for bacterial communities in two replicate experiments (Experiment-1 and Experiment-2) for each Transfer design. The percentage of variation explained by each axis is given, and the results of PERMANOVA tests for differences in community composition between host species are shown on each plot. Male flies are represented by triangles, and female flies by squares