Cultivation-Independent Methods Reveal Differences among Bacterial Gut Microbiota in Triatomine Vectors of Chagas Disease
Figure 4
Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of a 16S rDNA library of R. polixus (Rp) gut microbiota.
The 26 sequences (R in the phylogenetic tree) were obtained from insectary individuals (FIOCRUZ/IOC) and compared with GeneBank sequences. The percent values on branches are based on 1,000 bootstrap replicates. The ellipses represent OTU0.03 clusters obtained with MOTHUR. The α ellipse represents an OTU0.03 cluster shared by D. maximus and R. polixus. The δ ellipse represents an OTU0.03 cluster shared by R. polixus and T. infestans.