Gut microbiota responses to plastic feeding and starvation in plastivorous insects
This project examines how gut microbiota in plastivorous insects responds to plastic-based and nutritionally contrasted diets. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we compare microbiota structure under control, mixed, plastic-only, and starvation conditions in Tenebrio molitor and Galleria mellonella to evaluate the relative roles of plastic exposure and nutritional stress.