Figure 6.
(a–f) Bacterial community composition of larvae and their diets. Stacked bar plots represent the average relative abundance of the five most abundant bacterial OTUs. Each bar represents a larval stage or a dietary resource; n = number of replicates sampled. Each panel shows data for a different butterfly species. Variation in bacterial community composition was tested using permutational multivariate ANOVA (PERMANOVA, 1000 permutations). For G. thyrsis, p < 0.05; for all other comparisons, p > 0.05. Pie charts in each panel represent the proportion (%) of dietary bacteria (OTUs) found in larvae (black slice) at the 5% relative abundance cut-off.
