Table 2.

Metabolite markers that best (metabolite significant in the t-test, PLSDA, Venn diagram and effect size) describe the variation between the control and I. hoferi-infected White Stumpnose fish samples.

Compounds	t-test p-value	PLS-DA VIP-value	Effect size d-value	Positive fish concentration (ng/μL)	Negative fish concentration (ng/μL)
1, 2 Benzenedicarboxylic acid	<0.05	7.970	0.651	1.726 ± 2.414	3.891 ± 1.512
Propanoic acid	<0.05	5.134	0.571	0.304 ± 0.264	0.890 ± 0.319
Analyte 279	<0.05	6.617	0.561	0.636 ± 0.813	0.967 ± 0.237
D-mannose	<0.05	2.187	0.541	15.082 ± 10.033	37.020 ± 20.777
Adipic acid	<0.05	2.597	0.501	0.823 ± 0.513	1.277 ± 0.375