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From: Egg-laying by female Aedes aegypti shapes the bacterial communities of breeding sites

Fig. 3

Alpha diversity of ASVs as a function of treatment. Comparison of Simpson’s Index of Diversity recorded for the different treatments using a boxplot (10 replicates and median). The alpha diversity was significantly different between experimental groups (Kruskal–Wallis, P = 0.01). Treatment 5 had a significantly lower Simpson index compared with the other four treatments. Treatment 1 (T1): environmental control (type I water plus sterilized food). Treatment 2 (T2): manually-deposited sterilized mosquito eggs. Treatment 3 (T3): manually-deposited non-sterilized eggs. Treatment 4 (T4): single sugar-fed females interacting with container water. Treatment 5 (T5): single gravid female (72 h post-blood-feeding) allowed to lay eggs

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