Generational conservation of composition and diversity of field-acquired midgut microbiota in Anopheles gambiae (sensu lato) during colonization in the laboratory

Table 2 Pairwise comparison of diversity indices between experimental groups

Group 1	Group 2	Shannon-Weaver	Faith’s PD	Pielou’s Evenness
Baseline (n = 11)	Field F5 (n = 12)	0.14	0.28	0.12
	Field F10 (n = 10)	0.02	0.005	0.07
	Lab F5 (n = 4)	0.12	0.01	0.16
	Lab F10 (n = 2)	0.04	0.04	0.25
Field F₅ (n = 12)	Field F10 (n = 10)	<0.001	<0.001	0.001
	Lab F5 (n = 4)	0.008	0.0008	0.01
	Lab F10 (n = 2)	0.004	0.007	0.05
Field F₁₀ (n = 10)	Lab F5 (n = 4)	0.81	0.67	1.0
Field F₁₀ (n = 10)	Lab F10 (n = 2)	0.50	0.64	0.92
Lab F₅ (n = 4)	Lab F10 (n = 2)	0.45	0.90	0.94

Numbers are P-values following a Kruskal-Wallis test corrected for multiple comparisons by controlling false discovery rate

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