Barely Significant

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Partitioning of bacterial communities is an apparent trend in scarabs, with each general region of the gut harboring its own distinctive community ( Egert et al., 2003 ; Andert et al., 2010 ) including even host-species-unique members ( Cazemier et al., 1999 , 2003 ).
However, if treating ammonium in the CK incubations as indigenous background and deducting it from corresponding NF incubations, the remaining ammonium (net NH 4 + ) in NF incubations showed a decreasing trend along increasing WFPS levels, suggesting a possible active net ammonium consumption under higher moisture conditions ( Table 1 ).
By analyzing the α-diversity at each time point in the three groups, our study showed that in the EODF-SCI group, the gut microbiota structure changed dynamically, the abundance of gut microbiota showed a trend of decreasing and then increasing, and its diversity showed a trend of decreasing, then increasing, then decreasing, and finally increasing.