TABLE 2.
Community composition of the different vector pools for each of the sites
| Site | No. of specimensa | Family | Species | Sequence abundance | Fraction of COI reads (%) | OTU abundanceb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isiolo | 640 (114) | Cecidomyiidae | Cecidomyiidae sp. | 637 | 21.03 | 21 |
| Ceratopogonidae | Culicoides leucostictus | 260 | 8.58 | 2 | ||
| Culicoides oxystoma | 33 | 1.09 | 1 | |||
| Culicoides similis | 124 | 4.09 | 2 | |||
| Forcipomyia sp. | 918 | 30.31 | 4 | |||
| Chironomidae | Ablabesmyia sp. | 53 | 1.75 | 3 | ||
| Chironomidae sp. | 343 | 11.32 | 8 | |||
| Polypedilum sp. | 501 | 16.54 | 9 | |||
| Tanytarsus sp. | 160 | 5.28 | 1 | |||
| Baringo | 892 (873) | Ceratopogonidae | Culicoides bedfordi | 109 | 1.46 | 7 |
| Culicoides leucostictus | 4,871 | 65.46 | 17 | |||
| Culicoides nivosus | 987 | 13.26 | 4 | |||
| Culicoides pycnostictus | 1,474 | 19.81 | 8 | |||
| Turkana | 1,063 (884) | Cecidomyiidae | Cecidomyiidae sp. | 212 | 5.88 | 8 |
| Ceratopogonidae | Culicoides kingi | 260 | 7.21 | 6 | ||
| Culicoides leucostictus | 1,010 | 27.99 | 9 | |||
| Culicoides sp. | 102 | 2.83 | 1 | |||
| Culicoides nivosus | 354 | 9.81 | 6 | |||
| Culicoides schultzei | 745 | 20.65 | 14 | |||
| Chironomidae | Ablabesmyia sp. | 119 | 3.3 | 2 | ||
| Microchironomus sp. | 806 | 22.34 | 5 | |||
| Kacheliba | 156 (6) | Cecidomyiidae | Cecidomyiidae sp. | 1110 | 100 | 36 |
| Budalangi | 600 (600) | Ceratopogonidae | Culicoides leucostictus | 4940 | 100 | 13 |
a
The total number of specimens processed for each site is given, with the number of specimens morphologically classified as Culicoides sp. in parentheses.
b
Number of consensus sequences obtained after sequence clustering.