TABLE 3.

Redundancy analysis results from testing the null hypothesis that there is no difference between bioreactor sample T-RFLP profiles

Profilea	Variable	Sample		PCR replicate
		Proportion explained (%)	P value	Proportion explained (%)	P value
RsaI	Relative height	46	0.0017	—b	0.22
	Hellinger transformed	35	0.0003	—	0.19
	JD	35	0.012	—	0.37
MspI	Relative height	23	0.19	41	0.034
	Hellinger transformed	22	0.15	36	0.070
	JD	24	0.0054	—	0.34
HhaI	Relative height	33	0.024	38	0.072
	Hellinger transformed	33	0.0061	32	0.072
	JD	29	0.0005	—	0.19
MspI, RsaI, and	Relative height	30	0.0071	31	0.073
HhaI	Hellinger transformed	28	0.0032	30	0.073
	JD	26	0.0003	—	0.34

^aAll sample profiles had cumulative peak heights of >10,000 fluorescence units except some RsaI profiles.

^b—, variability explained is not significant at the P = 0.1 level.