Complexity and Variability of Gut Commensal Microbiota in Polyphagous Lepidopteran Larvae

• Xiaoshu Tang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoshu Tang, Dalial Freitak

  Affiliation Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Dalial Freitak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoshu Tang, Dalial Freitak

  Current address: Department of Applied Entomology, Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Giessen, Germany

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Heiko Vogel ,

  * E-mail: hvogel@ice.mpg.de (HV); lping@ice.mpg.de (LP); boland@ice.mpg.de (WB)

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Liyan Ping ,

  * E-mail: hvogel@ice.mpg.de (HV); lping@ice.mpg.de (LP); boland@ice.mpg.de (WB)

  Affiliation Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Yongqi Shao,

  Affiliation Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Erika Arias Cordero,

  Affiliation Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Gary Andersen,

  Affiliation Center for Environmental Biology and Molecular Microbial Ecology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Martin Westermann,

  Affiliation Centre of Electron Microscopy, The University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany

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• David G. Heckel,

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Wilhelm Boland

  * E-mail: hvogel@ice.mpg.de (HV); lping@ice.mpg.de (LP); boland@ice.mpg.de (WB)

  Affiliation Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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