Table 3. Results of an AMOVA depicting the contribution of elephant social groups (adult females and juveniles only) to the partitioning of genetic variation of the E. coli isolates from Amboseli elephants.

Source of variation	d.f.	Sum of squares	Variance components	Percentage of variation	FST	P
Patristic distance
Among family groups	9	4.374	−0.001	−0.40	−0.004	0.688
Among individual hosts within family groups	75	35.457	0.111	35.51	0.354	<0.001
Within individual hosts	125	25.383	0.203	64.89	0.351	<0.001
Haplotype distance
Among family groups	9	5.975	0.000	−0.09	−0.001	0.605
Among individual hosts within family groups	75	47.844	0.099	19.99	0.200	<0.001
Within individual hosts	125	49.667	0.397	80.1	0.199	<0.001