Phylogenetic classification of the most abundant bacterial genera in the gut samples of <i>P</i>. <i>endroedyi</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>striatum</i>: i.e., representing >2% reads.

<p>Phylogenetic classification of the most abundant bacterial genera in the gut samples of <i>P</i>. <i>endroedyi</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>striatum</i>: i.e., representing >2% reads.</p

Cytochrome oxidase I gene Parsimony tree phylogeny of 13 <i>Pachysoma</i> spp.

<p>Branch colours indicate the diet of the <i>Pachysoma</i> spp.: dung (brown), plant detritus (green), polyphagous (blue) and unknown (no colour). This phylogentic tree was adapted, with permission, from [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0161118#pone.0161118.ref042" target="_blank">42</a>] and the dietary information taken from both [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0161118#pone.0161118.ref043" target="_blank">43</a>] and personal observations by Prof C. Scholtz. Two species of <i>Scarabaeus</i>, (<i>S</i>. <i>proboscideus</i> and <i>S</i>. <i>rugosus</i>) which is the sister-genus to <i>Pachysoma</i> and a typical wet-dung-feeder, were used as outgroups. Numbers to the right of the tree indicate the three <i>Pachysoma</i> lineages. The two species considered in this study, <i>P</i>. <i>endroedyi</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>striatum</i>, are indicated with stars (Adapted from C. Sole [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0161118#pone.0161118.ref042" target="_blank">42</a>]).</p

Values for sequence reads, Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), phyla and diversity indices for bacterial and fungal gut communities of <i>P</i>. <i>endroedyi</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>striatum</i> individuals.

<p>Values for sequence reads, Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), phyla and diversity indices for bacterial and fungal gut communities of <i>P</i>. <i>endroedyi</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>striatum</i> individuals.</p

nMDS ordination plot based on Bray-Curtis distance matrices of bacterial 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing data for <i>P</i>. <i>endroedyi</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>striatum</i> individuals.

<p>A stress value of less than 0.1 represents a high quality ordination. <i>Pachysoma endroedyi</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>striatum</i> are represented by green and inverted brown triangles, respectively.</p