Fig. 6
Canonical analysis of principal coordinates (CAP) ordinations of bacterial communities based on relative abundances of bacterial OTUs from Z. cucurbitae samples examined, based on different diets (sweet gourd (SG) and wheat bran (BR)), irradiation treatment (non-irradiated (NIR) and irradiated (IR)) and gender (male (M) and female (F)). The constrained ordinations show maximized differences among the two diets and the irradiated against the non-irradiated samples (traceQ_m’HQ_m statistics (2.52837; p < 0.001))