“…There is insufficient information on the roles they play in their host (Gurung et al, 2019) although it has been suggested that they could affect plants (Taffner et al, 2018). In this study, Euryarchaeota was the most dominant archaea phylum followed by has been reported in the hindguts of beetles, cockroaches, termites and millipedes (Brune, 2009;Egert et al, 2005;Hara, Shinzato, Seo, Oshima, & Yamagishi, 2002;Shinzato, Matsumoto, Yamaoka, Oshima, & Yamagishi, 1999;Šustr, Chroňáková, Semanová, Tajovský, & Šimek, 2014;Tinker & Ottesen, 2016). Similarly, shotgun metagenomic analysis of the gut of diamondback moth Plutella xylostella larvae revealed Euryarchaeota DNA in very low proportions (Xia et al, 2017).…”