Culex pipiens and Culex restuans egg rafts harbor diverse bacterial communities compared to their midgut tissues

Table 1 Bacterial OTU richness and diversity (mean ± SE) in midgut and egg samples of Cx. restuans and Cx. pipiens

Sample type	n1	n2	Observed	Chao1	Shannon	OTU_obs/OTU_pred
Culex pipiens midgut	66	59	17.5 ± 1	20.7 ± 1	1.1 ± 0.1	0.86 ± 0.02
Culex pipiens eggs	66	39	48.6 ± 2	56.9 ± 2	2.9 ± 0.1	0.86 ± 0.01
Culex restuans midgut	28	27	15.5 ± 2	19.1 ± 2	0.8 ± 0.2	0.88 ± 0.02
Culex restuans eggs	28	19	44.3 ± 3	50.9 ± 3	2.7 ± 0.1	0.87 ± 0.3

n1, sample size used in sequencing, n2, sample size retained after quality checks of the sequenced samples and used in the analysis

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