Table 4. Results of an AMOVA depicting the contribution of elephant social groups (adult females and juveniles only) to the partitioning of genetic variation of E. coli isolates from Samburu elephants.

Source of variation	d.f.	Sum of squares	Variance components	Percentage of variation	FST	P
Patristic distance
Among family groups	4	4.251	0.009	2.57	0.026	0.142
Among individual hosts within family groups	24	20.565	0.175	51.11	0.525	0.000
Within individual hosts	87	13.781	0.158	46.33	0.537	0.000
Haplotype distance
Among family groups	4	4.782	0.006	1.12	0.011	0.116
Among individual hosts within family groups	24	25.539	0.192	38.84	0.393	0.000
Within individual hosts	87	25.817	0.297	60.04	0.400	0.000