Table 2.

Variation partitioning of the relative effect of diet and reproductive experience on the composition of bacterial microbiota on rats fed either standard chow or a high-fat diet (experiment 1).

Fraction	Variation	% Explained	p
RE	0.5004	60.1	0.002
Days on diet	0.065	7.8	0.002
Shared	0.267	32.1	0.004
Total Explained	0.832	100
Total Variation	2.1