BackgroundThe western corn rootworm (WCR) is one of the economically most important pests of maize. A better understanding of microbial communities associated with guts and eggs of the WCR is required
We described the taxonomic composition of endophytic microbiomes in symptomatic, asymptomatic and feral vanilla plants using 16S and ITS rDNA metabarcoding. We compared the bacterial and fungal divers