Fig. 5
From: Bacterial communities in carnivorous pitcher plants colonize and persist in inquiline mosquitoes
a Proportion of axenic first instars surviving to the pupal stage when fed: sterilized diet only (Axenic) or sterilized diet plus different bacterial isolates. Gnotobiotic larvae recolonized with the mixed community of bacteria present under conventional rearing conditions (i.e., their ‘Native microbiota’) served as the positive control. A minimum of 98 larvae were assayed per treatment across two independent assays. An asterisk (*) indicates a significant difference for a given treatment relative to the positive control (Barnard’s test; p < 0.01). b Development time of the same larvae from egg hatching to pupation. Box-and-whisker plots show high, low, and median values, with lower and upper edges of each box denoting first and third quartiles, respectively. An asterisk (*) indicates a significant difference for a given treatment relative to the positive control (Mann–Whitney U test; p < 0.01). The number above each bar represents the number of larvae that pupated and for which development time to pupation was recorded