Neither sampling site nor termite genus affected Shannon or evenness indices, while caste was highly significant for both our mothur or dada2 classification approaches (Supporting Information Table S5 ), consistent with the highly significant contrasts in the comparison of beta‐diversity between sterile and reproductive castes (Supporting Information Table S11 ).
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Gut microbial compositions mirror caste-specific diets in a major lineage of social insects.
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