Table 3.
Summary of a permutational analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) assessing the effect of family membership on unweighted UniFrac distances between families
| Body site | Source of variation | Df | MS | Pseudo-F | P | |
| Palms (L&R) | Family membership | 69 | 0.3274 | 2.0702 | 0.001 | 0.21 |
| Residual | 210 | 0.15815 | 0.40 | |||
| Forehead | Family membership | 70 | 0.23758 | 1.4603 | 0.001 | 0.18 |
| Residual | 91 | 0.1627 | 0.40 | |||
| Fecal | Family membership | 66 | 0.212 | 1.2759 | 0.001 | 0.14 |
| Residual | 92 | 0.16615 | 0.41 | |||
| Oral | Family membership | 68 | 0.12544 | 1.6803 | 0.001 | 0.15 |
| Residual | 96 | 0.07465 | 0.27 |
are the estimates of the components of variance for the factors. Statistically significant effects are in bold.