Table 3.

PERMANOVAs based on BC similarity measure for square-root transformed relative abundances or Jaccard similarity measure (composition) of bacterial TRF profiles associated with Phyllospora at their destination place in (A) donor populations or (B) Sydney metro in the second experiment.^∗

		Square-root transformed BC			Jaccard
Source	df	MS	pseudo-F	p(perm.)	MS	pseudo-F	p(perm.)
(A)
Tr		2744	1.40	0.254	3578	1.32	0.259
Pl		2929	3.20	< 0.001	3732	2.19	< 0.001
Tr × Pl		1966	2.15	0.004	2702	1.58	0.004
Residual		914			1706
Pairwise tests		PB: TL ≠ U Cr: TL ≠ U				PB: TL ≠ U Cr: TL ≠ U
(B)
Tr		2327	2.35	0.004	3126	1.74	0.006
Pl		4288	4.33	< 0.001	4987	2.79	< 0.001
Tr × Pl		879	Pooled		1875	Pooled
Residual		997			1786

^∗(A) Treatment was fixed with two levels (U, TL), Place of destination was random with two levels (Cr, PB). (B) Treatment was fixed with two levels (TP from Palm Beach or Cronulla), Place of destination was random with two levels (CB, LB). The replicates were the Phyllospora individuals (n = 5). P-values were calculated using 9,999 permutations under a reduced model. Non-significant interaction terms with p > 0.25 were pooled. Bold indicates statistical significance (at alpha = 0.005).