Table 3.

Factors influencing bacterial communities of healthy and WPD-affected corals

	df	SS	MS	Pseudo-F	P perm	Permutations
Site	1	38.28	38.28	10.40	0.001	999
Condition	1	18.02	18.02	4.90	0.001	998
Species (site)	2	20.72	10.36	2.82	0.001	999
Site × condition	1	11.33	11.33	3.08	0.002	997
Condition × species (site)	2	10.28	5.14	1.40	n.s.	997
Residuals	16	58.87	3.68
Total	23	157.50

PERMANOVA summary statistics for factors affecting bacterial communities in healthy and WPD-affected corals from the Caribbean (i.e. Puerto Rico) and the Indo-Pacific (i.e. Gulf of Thailand).

Df, degrees of freedom; SS, sum of squares; MS, mean squares; n.s., not significant.