Table 6.

Results of the k-tests for the cattle-specific, the badger-specific and for the mixed subnetworks of the full contact network, for the molecular types only found in cattle only and for those found both in badgers and cattle.

			Observed networks	Reallocated networks
Molecular types found in	Networks	p-value	k-statistic	Mean k-statistic	SD k-statistic
Cattle only	Cattle-specific	1	0.00	0.002	0.01
	Badger-specific	0.07	0.11	0.008	0.03
	Mixed	0.006*	0.11	0.0008	0.01
Badger and cattle	Cattle-specific	0.027	0.23	0.09	0.06
	Badger-specific	0*	2.28	0.39	0.13
	Mixed	0*	0.46	0.03	0.03

^*significant difference after Bonferroni correction (p < 7.14^*10⁻³); SD, standard deviation.