Fig. 4

Associated bacteria of fungivorous nematode A. avenae. a Venn diagram showing significantly upregulated (↑) and downregulated (↓) genes of C. cinerea in response to nematode (present study) and bacteria (previous study) challenges. Genes with fold change of ≥4 and FDR ≤ 0.05 considered as significantly upregulated while genes with fold change of ≤ − 4 and FDR ≤ 0.05 considered as significantly downregulated b Assigned OTU numbers for associated bacteria of Aphelenchus avenae for each biological replicate. c Rarefaction analysis of observed OTUs of nematode-associated bacteria. The relative abundance of the bacterial composition of the nematode at phylum (d) and class (c) levels