Figure 6. The phylogeny-based β-diversity values between bacterial communities detected in the gut of S. littoralis larvae at different instars and after feeding on different diets by cloning and sequencing.

The upper values are the parsimony scores and the lower values are the weighted UniFrac scores. Higher score indicates that the two samples are more different on bacterial composition. All significance are lower than 0.001. Artificial food was depicted as cubes; Lima bean as a single leaf; barley as a whole plant.