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. 2009 Jan 9;75(6):1658–1666. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01304-08

TABLE 1.

Results of simple and partial Mantel tests between distance matrices for genotypic dissimilarity, environmental dissimilarity, geographic distance, and temporal separation of isolates from each sampling eventa

Dependent variable Independent variable Controlling for r P value
Environmental dissimilarity Temporal separation 0.081 0.0034
Geographic distance Environmental dissimilarity 0.141 0.0019
Genotypic dissimilarity Water temperature 0.023 0.1094
Genotypic dissimilarity Salinity 0.033 0.0366
Genotypic dissimilarity Turbidity −0.010 0.3094
Genotypic dissimilarity Ammonium 0.049 0.0078
Genotypic dissimilarity Environmental dissimilarity 0.061 0.0004
Genotypic dissimilarity Environmental dissimilarity Geographic distance 0.047 0.0074
Genotypic dissimilarity Environmental dissimilarity Temporal separation 0.053 0.0028
Genotypic dissimilarity Geographic distance 0.102 0.0001
Genotypic dissimilarity Geographic distance Environmental dissimilarity 0.094 0.0001
Genotypic dissimilarity Geographic distance Temporal separation 0.097 0.0001
Genotypic dissimilarity Temporal separation 0.101 0.0001
Genotypic dissimilarity Temporal separation Geographic distance 0.095 0.0001
Genotypic dissimilarity Temporal separation Environmental dissimilarity 0.096 0.0001
a

Simple and partial Mantel test data are shown in rows containing two and three comparison variables, respectively. All correlations were statistically significant (P < 0.05 with false discovery rate correction), except for the simple Mantel tests between genotypic dissimilarity and water temperature and between genotypic dissimilarity and turbidity. Ranges of r in the text represent the individual correlations of geographic, environmental, or temporal distance with genotypic dissimilarity when both remaining factors were accounted for.