Table 4. Scale insect species 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	19, 8	Adonis	Binary	9.37	0.001	**
		MRPP	Binary	0.154	0.001	**
Pyrosequencing	8, 4	Adonis	Jaccard’s	2.04	0.004	**
			w.Unifrac	3.43	0.023	*
		MRPP	Jaccard’s	0.043	0.003	**
			w.Unifrac	0.084	0.026	*

Samples of sooty mould from Ultracoelostoma brittini and Coelostomidia wairoensis were compared.

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

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