Extended Data Fig. 4: Folsomia candida springtails are positively affected by being fed Streptomyces coelicolor mycelium. | Nature Microbiology

Extended Data Fig. 4: Folsomia candida springtails are positively affected by being fed Streptomyces coelicolor mycelium.

From: Developmentally regulated volatiles geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol attract a soil arthropod to Streptomyces bacteria promoting spore dispersal

Extended Data Fig. 4

Survival, moulting and oviposition of female F. candida kept for 10 days on sporulating cultures of S. coelicolor (n=31, grey solid lines) or SFM agar controls (n=23, light grey dashed lines). Survival on S. coelicolor was as high as on SFM control (a, X21, 54 =1.7, P=0.195). Exposure to S. coelicolor had a positive effect on the initiation of moulting (b, X21, 54 =11, P<0.001***) and oviposition (c, X21, 54 =6.4, P=0.011*) with more eggs being laid (d, X21, 54 =6.064, P=0.0138*; the boxplot shows the medians, lower- and upper quartiles as well as the span of data points that are within 1.5 times the interquartile range).

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