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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2010 Mar 25;307(1):80–86. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01965.x

Table 1.

permanova results of Sample, Day, Temperature and Day × Temperature effects on 387 pairwise weighted and unweighted UniFrac distances. Bold text indicates tests where P< 0.05.

dfa SSa MSa Pseudo-F P
Unweighted UniFrac
 All Samples
  Sample 5 26 5.1 25 0.001
  Day 1 0.27 0.27 0.73 0.75
  Temperature 3 0.64 0.21 0.56 1.0
  Day × Temperature 3 0.66 0.22 0.57 1.0
 Fecal
  Sample 1 3.3 3.3 19 0.001
  Day 1 0.26 0.26 1.09 0.24
  Temperature 3 0.58 0.19 0.79 0.83
  Day × Temperature 3 0.57 0.19 0.77 0.86
 Soil
  Sample 1 1.4 1.4 6.2 0.001
  Day 1 0.27 0.27 1.11 0.15
  Temperature 3 0.68 0.23 0.92 0.87
  Day × Temperature 3 0.66 0.22 0.89 0.98
 Skin
  Sample 1 1.0 1.0 4.8 0.001
  Day 1 0.32 0.32 1.4 0.02
  Temperature 3 0.67 0.22 0.97 0.61
  Day × Temperature 3 0.72 0.24 1.05 0.22
Weighted UniFrac
 All Samples
  Sample 5 14 2.8 301 0.001
  Day 1 0.04 0.04 0.41 0.76
  Temperature 3 0.05 0.02 0.15 1.0
  Day × Temperature 3 0.04 0.01 0.12 1.0
 Fecal
  Sample 1 0.83 0.83 101 0.001
  Day 1 0.06 0.06 2.28 0.107
  Temperature 3 0.07 0.02 0.93 0.475
  Day × Temperature 3 0.03 0.01 0.38 0.894
 Soil
  Sample 1 0.46 0.46 56 0.001
  Day 1 0.04 0.04 2.07 0.11
  Temperature 3 0.04 0.01 0.67 0.70
  Day × Temperature 3 0.02 0.01 0.38 0.99
 Skin
  Sample 1 0.87 0.87 79 0.001
  Day 1 0.02 0.02 0.51 0.53
  Temperature 3 0.03 0.01 0.28 0.93
  Day × Temperature 3 0.05 0.02 0.53 0.73
a

df=degrees of freedom: SS= sum of squares; MS= mean squares