TABLE 5.

Adonis, MRPP, and ANOSIM P-values based on microbial community between groups.

vs. groups1	21 days			42 days
	Adonis P-values	MRPP P-values	ANOSIM P-values	Adonis P-values	MRPP P-values	ANOSIM P-values
NC vs. PC	0.003	0.010	0.008	0.412	0.420	0.300
NC vs. DOA	0.281	0.267	0.308	0.684	0.775	0.718
NC vs. WOA	0.014	0.007	0.030	0.315	0.273	0.247
NC vs. MOA	0.215	0.253	0.147	0.147	0.177	0.204
PC vs. DOA	0.031	0.048	0.016	0.462	0.577	0.500
PC vs. WOA	0.002	0.003	0.005	0.367	0.428	0.447
PC vs. MOA	0.001	0.004	0.003	0.111	0.247	0.312
DOA vs. WOA	0.010	0.009	0.143	0.924	0.903	0.819
DOA vs. MOA	0.137	0.181	0.146	0.560	0.558	0.404
WOA vs. MOA	0.031	0.040	0.098	0.504	0.512	0.715

¹NC, negative control, basal diet and basal drinking water with no antibiotic supplementation; PC, positive control, antibiotics supplementation; DOA, NC plus diet-administered OA supplementation; WOA, NC plus water-administered OA supplementation; MOA, NC plus diet-administered and water-administered OA supplementation. Adonis, permutation multivariate analysis of variance; MRPP, multiple response permutation procedure; ANOSIM, analysis of similarities.