Table 1.

Gut microbial diversity. Estimators of taxonomic diversity for gut microbiota of Aedes aegypti, Culicoides nubeculosus, and C. sonorensis kept on either 6% glucose solution (untreated) or 6% glucose solution with penicillin and streptomycin (antibiotic-treated). Average values (minimum–maximum) are presented for Inverse Simpson Index, Shannon-Wiener Diversity, and Shannon-Wiener Evenness

Taxonomic diversity	Mosquitoes		Biting midges
	Aedes aegypti		Culicoides nubeculosus		Culicoides sonorensis
	Untreated	Antibiotic-treated	Untreated	Antibiotic-treated	Untreated	Antibiotic-treated
No. of samples	12	12	18	15	10	9
Inverse Simpson Index	1.501 (1.009–3.063)	3.038 (1.031–11.702)	1.257 (1.011–2.070)	2.915 (1.237–5.901)	2.437(1.074–7.647)	3.135 (1.014–8.401)
Shannon-Wiener diversity	0.527 (0.039–1.720)	1.055 (0.114–3.009)	0.351 (0.046–0.837)	1.339 (0.528–2.150)	1.070 (0.202–2.771)	1.265 (0.061–3.289)
Shannon-Wiener evenness	1.236 (1.031–1.823)	1.385 (1.087–1.940)	1.158 (1.036–1.332)	1.447 (1.302–1.730)	1.522 (1.139–2.090)	1.468 (1.048–3.192)