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From: Wild specimens of sand fly phlebotomine Lutzomyia evansi, vector of leishmaniasis, show high abundance of Methylobacterium and natural carriage of Wolbachia and Cardinium types in the midgut microbiome

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Gut microbiome composition in Lu. evansi wild specimens analyzed collected in the Colombian Caribbean region. (a) Phyla composition from 16S amplicon Illumina reads on DNA extracted from gut microbiomes. 21.332 sequences per specimen were obtained on average. (b) Rarefaction curve from Chao1 analysis using partial 16S rRNA gene sequences of guts from field-collected Lu. evansi (male/fed females/unfed females). Saturated rarefaction curve indicates that the vastness of microbial diversity was retrieved from each sample. Nomenclature of gut pools: COM: males from Colosó; COFF: fed females from Coloso; COUF: Unfed females from Coloso; OVM: males from Ovejas; OVFF: fed females from Ovejas; OVUF: unfed females from Ovejas.

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