Extended Data Fig. 6: Sister comparisons of families with and without obligate symbionts.
From: Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects
Obligate symbiosis was associated with increased species richness in all comparisons apart from one, where there has been a switch to blood feeding from predation. Species richness was measured as the number of species within families and is presented on the natural logarithmic scale. There were 13 sister families with different percentages of species with obligate symbionts. Of these, 5 comparisons had small differences in rates of obligate symbiosis: <35% difference in percentage of species with obligate symbionts (not plotted, see Fig. 4 for all 13 comparisons).
