Table 1 Diversity of bacterial communities in the midguts of adult females of Aedes aegypti
Treatment | No. of mosquito pools (initial) | No. of mosquito pools (final) | Rarefied data (1538 sequences) | All data | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OTU richness | Shannon diversity | OTU richness | Shannon diversity | Total sequences | |||
Chicken | 12 | 10 | 11.70 ± 0.33a | 0.50 ± 0.02a | 17.60 ± 0.58 | 0.50 ± 0.02 | 15,165.1 ± 814.29 |
Combined | 12 | 12 | 17.58 ± 0.91b | 1.26 ± 0.11bc | 25.08 ± 1.38 | 1.26 ± 0.11 | 6038.75 ± 923.05 |
Newly emerged adults | 12 | 10 | 14.20 ± 1.91b | 0.71 ± 0.13ac | 20.30 ± 1.66 | 0.71 ± 0.09 | 13,945 ± 6727.96 |
Rabbit | 12 | 8 | 13.25 ± 0.92b | 1.35 ± 0.05b | 22.38 ± 1.83 | 1.36 ± 0.05 | 12,147.38 ± 4739.73 |
Sugar | 12 | 10 | 16.50 ± 1.48ab | 1.55 ± 0.08b | 26.44 ± 2.36 | 1.55 ± 0.08 | 15,530.6 ± 5066.28 |