Table 1.

Significance of statistical tests for pairwise comparisons of community diversity metrics between natural vs autoclaved phage suspension

	Alpha diversity			Beta diversity
	Faith-PD	Evenness	Shannon	UniFrac (unweighted)	UniFrac (weighted)	Jaccard (qualitative)	Bray-Curtis (quantitative)
During colonization
BS1PS1	0.916	0.347	0.250	0.058	0.208	0.108	0.106
BS1PS2	0.754	0.250	0.174	0.705	0.462	0.442	0.185
BS2PS2	0.916	0.347	0.250	0.27	0.244	0.017	0.104
BS2PS1*	0.250	0.117	0.028	0.377	0.128	0.051	0.045
BS1PC*	0.464	0.028	0.016	0.058	0.083	0.008	0.013
BS2PC	0.462	0.806	0.624	0.036	0.123	0.035	0.104
After colonization
BS1PS1	0.386	0.772	1	0.086	0.771	0.027	0.235
BS1PS2	0.025	0.654	0.101	0.057	0.217	0.554	0.263
BS2PS2	0.148	0.386	1	0.027	0.148	0.025	0.31
BS2PS1*	0.563	0.043	0.083	0.118	0.024	0.05	0.05
BS1PC	0.174	0.601	0.916	0.041	0.168	0.035	0.329
BS2PC	0.624	0.462	0.806	0.159	0.432	0.166	0.238
Natural soil
S1PS1	0.028	0.754	0.075	0.112	0.178	0.136	0.229
S1PS2	0.327	0.327	0.624	0.756	0.181	0.76	0.734
S2PS2	0.456	0.296	0.654	0.711	0.671	0.752	0.739
S2PS1*	0.025	0.179	0.025	0.017	0.049	0.026	0.049
S1PC	0.086	0.05	0.05	0.852	0.695	0.098	0.268
S2PC*	0.086	0.014	0.141	0.072	0.021	0.011	0.008

Italicized p values < 0.05; asterisk (*) highlights treatments where both alpha and beta diversity were changed significantly (p values < 0.05) based on Kruskal-Wallis and PERMANOVA tests, respectively