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From: Houseflies harbor less diverse microbiota under laboratory conditions but maintain a consistent set of host-associated bacteria

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Bacterial and fungal alpha diversity of the microbial communities from developmental stages of three Musca domestica strains, estimated with three diversity metrics: the number of Amplicon Sequence Variants, Shannon index, and Faith’s Phylogenetic Diversity. The line in each boxplot represents the median of all values, with the upper limit of the box being the first and the lower limit of the box being the third quartile. Each boxplot represents all samples of one housefly strain (GK0, GK50, or SP100) per developmental stage (3 day old adults, eggs, larvae, pupae, 1 day old adults), i.e. three biological replicates for four generations. For the GK0 strain, one separate boxplot represents the wild-caught adults immediately after collection (adults from the farm). GK0: field population, the Netherlands; GK50: laboratory population originally collected in the Netherlands; SP100: laboratory population originally collected in Spain.

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