The Cockroach Origin of the Termite Gut Microbiota: Patterns in Bacterial Community Structure Reflect Major Evolutionary Events

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    Legends to all supplemental material; relative abundance of sequence reads assigned to the major bacterial phyla in the gut microbiota of cockroaches, lower termites, and higher termites (Fig. S1); comparison of bacterial community structures in cockroaches and termites using various ordination techniques and taxon-independent (OTU‐based) approaches (Fig. S2); classification success at different taxonomic levels for all insects included in this study (Table S2); contributions of the 100 most important genus-level taxa to the separation of cockroaches, lower termites, and higher termites in the ordination analyses (Table S3).

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    Detailed phylogenetic trees of selected genus-level lineages in the gut microbiota that contribute strongly to the separation of cockroaches, lower termites, and higher termites (Fig. S4).

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    Interactive spreadsheet with the classification results for all samples (relative abundance of reads at different phylogenetic levels) (Table S1).

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