Fig. 2
From: Synergistic action of the gut microbiota in environmental RNA interference in a leaf beetle
Ingestion of dsRNA alters gut microbiota composition of P. versicolora. a Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) diagrams of 20 samples, based on Jaccard matrix. b Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) with Bray–Curtis dissimilarity of the bacterial community. c Kruskal–Wallis H test bar plot analysis of the relative proportions of major genera of gut bacteria (relative abundances of the top 10 genera). The relative abundances of the identified microbial taxa were determined in gut samples collected from larvae fed with dsGFP, dsSrp54k, dsActin, or H2O. P values were calculated using the Kruskal–Wallis H test. *** P < 0.001; ** P < 0.01; * P < 0.05