Interestingly, abundances of several categories (such as lipid metabolism, energy metabolism, environmental adaptation, amino acid metabolism and translation) showed an increasing trend from the female pupae and female adults to next generation eggs, suggesting a vertical transmission of specific bacteria from the female adults to its offspring via maternal secretions.
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Composition and diversity of gut microbiota across developmental stages of <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> and its effect on the reproduction.
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