Fig. 3From: You don’t have the guts: a diverse set of fungi survive passage through Macrotermes bellicosus termite gutsa An example of fungal growth during the three sampling points, with clear presence of non-Termitomyces growth on day four and complete Pseudoxylaria overgrowth on day 6. Images taken from colony IC0031 with 50 workers. Photos: RP. b Box plots of fungal genus diversity, calculated as the inverse Simpson index (top) and observed richness (bottom) as a function of the number of workers present (0, 50 or 200) and time (2, 4 and 6 days). c Relative abundance of the 10 most common genera present in the fungus comb. Although the comb mostly consists of Termitomyces, the genera Xylaria and Geniculisynnema (which has been proposed to be reclassified to Xylaria [36]) quickly rise in dominance when workers are absentBack to article page