Table 2.

Multidimensional equivalent of variance in microbiota community composition among replicate host populations: mean squared Euclidean distance of individual communities to the diet treatment centroid in multidimensional space, using both distance matrices (mean and range of values obtained for 100 independent rarefactions)

Distance measure	4% diet	10% diet	27% diet
Bray–Curtis	0.154 [0.149–0.160]	0.184 [0.173–0.194]	0.155 [0.150–0.163]
Weighted UniFrac	0.0084 [0.0053–0.0092]	0.0228 [0.0213–0.0290]	0.0357 [0.0314–0.0436]