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. 2023 Apr 15;17(7):976–983. doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01410-3

Table 1.

Results from permutational analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) for the effects of site, reef type (back vs. fringing), and geographic distance on microbial community metrics.

Taxonomic composition Functional composition Biosynthetic potential Realized potential
ASV (Bray-Curtis) ASV (UniFrac) Metagenomes Pfam OBUs GCFs Metabolome
Site (R2) 0.18*** 0.17*** 0.25** 0.22 0.19*** 0.25*** 0.28***
Reef type (R2) 0.07*** 0.07*** 0.07** 0.07* 0.04** 0.06** 0.09***
Geographic distance (R2) 0.03*** 0.01*** <0.0001 <0.01 0.01** 0.01** 0.01***

Percent of variance explained depicted as R2 values for each effect with level of significance (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001).

ASV amplicon sequence variants of the 16 S rRNA gene, Pfam protein families, OBU operational biosynthetic unit, GCF gene cluster family.