Host species and site of collection shape the microbiota of Rift Valley fever vectors in Kenya

• David P. Tchouassi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David P. Tchouassi, Ephantus J. Muturi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dtchouassi@icipe.org

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-4704

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• Ephantus J. Muturi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David P. Tchouassi, Ephantus J. Muturi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Crop Bioprotection Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

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• Samwel O. Arum,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Chang-Hyun Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Christopher J. Fields,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation High Performance Computing in Biology (HPCBio), Roy J Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7749-5844

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• Baldwyn Torto

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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