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Table 2. Multivariate analysis of the effect of sex and life stage on the relatedness of Amblyomma americanum bacterial communities.

			PERMANOVA			Dispersion Test
Collection	Distance Metric	Metric Type	F	R²	p ^*	F	p ^*
Georgia	Jaccard	Community composition	17.3	0.255	0.0020	12.5	0.0020
Georgia	Bray-Curtis	Community structure	24.9	0.330	0.0020	8.77	0.0020
Archival	Jaccard	Community composition	1.63	0.0611	0.026	0.533	0.96
Archival	Bray-Curtis	Community structure	8.28	0.249	0.0020	0.345	0.96

Tick DNAs from the archival collection (n = 27) were older, collected in a different geographical region, and processed using different protocols than tick DNAs from the Georgia collection (n = 104).

*Corrected for multiple comparisons using Holm’s method; α = 0.05.