Fig. 6

Comparison of gut bacterial abundance and diversity between corn and sorghum reared C. punctiferalis larvae based on 16S rRNA sequencing data. a Microbiome load. b–e Scatterplots representing Chao1 (b), Simpson (c), Shannon d and Observed OTUs (e). f Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) of beta diversity based on weighted UniFrac distances representing the differences between corn and sorghum reared C. punctiferalis larvae. g Relative abundance of top 10 bacteria showing bacterial community structure at genus level. h LEfSe Bar diagram for different host plant reared C. punctiferalis larvae with LDA scores higher than 2.0. A higher LDA score represents that this bacterial taxon has a greater contribution to the differences