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Figure 2. Effects of irradiation on the α- and β-diversity of the gut microbiota in Aedes albopictus GT male mosquitoes. (A) Chao diversity index; (B) Shannon diversity index. Student’s t-test was used to compare the Chao and Shannon diversity indices. (C) PCoA (principal coordinates analysis) based on weighted UniFrac distance algorithm; (D) Chao diversity index; (E) Shannon diversity index. One-way ANOVA for multiple group comparisons and Student’s t-test for pairwise comparisons; (F) NMDS (non-metric multidimensional scaling) analysis based on Bray-Curtis distance algorithm. P < 0.05 represents a statistically significant difference. ns indicates no statistically significant difference. OTU: Operational taxonomic unit; GT: ANOVA: one-way analysis of variance.