Table 3. Host influence on the sooty mould community composition using different molecular and analysis methods.

Molecular method	Replicates	Analysis		Statistic		Significance2
		Method	Distance matrix	Test statistic1	P-value
T-RFLP	14, 9	Adonis	Binary	1.17	0.296
		MRPP	Binary	0	0.414
Pyrosequencing	6, 2	Adonis	Jaccard’s	0.99	0.573
			w.Unifrac	0.75	0.588
		MRPP	Jaccard’s	0.001	0.423
			w.Unifrac	0.067	0.176

Samples of sooty mould from black beech and red beech were compared.

¹Test Statistic: Adonis = F-test statistic; MRPP = chance corrected within-group agreement, A.

²Significance codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05.