Table 2.
Statistical overview over bacterial microbiome differences across sites
| Two-way PERMANOVA test statistics | Pairwise comparisons by destination site | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor | Model-F | P MC | A | B | C | D | E | |
| Species: A. hemprichii | A | – | 3.4 | 3.62 | 3.7 | 3.28 | ||
| Destination site | 2.86 | <0.001 | B | 0.01 | – | 2.55 | 1.1 | 3.33 |
| Origin site | 1.1 | 0.14 | C | 0.01 | 0.01 | – | 1.36 | 2.02 |
| Destination × Origin site | 0.98 | 0.6 | D | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | – | 2.17 |
| E | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | – | |||
| Species: P. verrucosa | A | – | 2.48 | 1.76 | 1.9 | 2.14 | ||
| Destination site | 1.82 | <0.001 | B | 0.01 | – | 1.54 | 1.4 | 1.92 |
| Origin site | 1.1 | 0.18 | C | 0.08 | 0.11 | – | 1.19 | 1.22 |
| Destination × Origin site | 1.07 | 0.17 | D | 0.17 | 0.26 | 1.00 | – | 1.26 |
| E | 0.04 | 0.03 | 1.00 | 1.00 | – | |||
Significant comparisons are printed in bold
PMC: Monte-Carlo permuted p-value
Pairwise comparisons: lower triangle p-values, upper triangle Model-F values
Tests were conducted separately for the corals Acropora hemprichii and Pocillopora verrucosa after 21 months of reciprocal transplantation