The Core Gut Microbiome of the American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana, Is Stable and Resilient to Dietary Shifts

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    Barcodes used in Caporaso primers (Table S1); relative abundances of microbial families across 14-day diet treatments (Fig. S1); ordination analysis of 14-day diet treatments (Fig. S2); PERMANOVA based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity measurements between the laboratory dog food diet and other diet treatments (Table S2); diversity analyses of short-term dietary treatments (Fig. S3); relative abundances of microbial phyla (Fig. S4) and of microbial families (Fig. S5) across long-term dietary treatments; nonmetric multidimensional scaling of long-term diet treatments (Fig. S6); diversity analyses of long-term dietary treatments (Fig. S7); core gut microbiota found in cockroaches across all dietary treatment groups in the 14-day dietary shift (Table S3); core gut microbiota found in all human samples (Table S4); core gut microbiota found in laboratory-raised cockroaches, initial wild-caught cockroaches, and wild-caught cockroaches after 14 days in laboratory conditions (Table S5).

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    Metadata for short- and long-term dietary shifts and for wild-caught comparison (Data Set S1).

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