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. 2020 Aug 11;11:1890. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01890

TABLE 2.

PERMDISP (fourth-root transformed and presence/absence data; dataset A) testing differences in the microbiome profiles (401 bacterial genera considered) of five fruit fly species (B. dorsalis, Z. cucurbitae, B. oleae, C. capitata, C. quilicii) sampled from four different host plants.

df MS F p
Fourth-root transformed data
FFSp 4 1555.209 6.668 0.004 **
Ho(FFSp) 15 233.240 6.179 0.000 ***
Residual 40 37.745
Total 59
Presence/Absence-data
FFSp 4 749.530 7.637 0.003 **
Ho(FFSp) 15 98.143 1.822 0.045 **
Residual 40 53.860
Total 59

Average within-group dissimilarities Fourth-root transformed data Presence/Absence-data

B. dorsalis 63.213 65.326
Z. cucurbitae 79.797 51.782
B. oleae 14.186 66.527
C. capitata 83.920 65.283
C. quilicii 82.305 69.623

***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, n.s. p > 0.05.