Fig. 7

Comparison of microbial taxonomic profiles between different studied groups. (A) Principal Coordinate Analysis of whole larval microbiota profiles based on Bray-Curtis similarity distances; (B) Shared ASVs between different studied groups; (C) Shared ASVs between groups showing significantly different survival rates. In Fig. A, three significantly different clusters are shown as the larval microbiota profiles after hydrogen peroxide and glutaraldehyde treatment formed significantly similar (P ≥ 0.05) clusters. This cluster is named as the cluster with increased survival rates. In Fig. B and C, the details of ASVs shared between each group are included in Supplementary File 4. Abbreviations used: GA: Gluteraldehyde; H2O2: Hydrogen peroxide