Table 2.

Analysis of similarity (ANOSIM) analysis of the similarity of five curing stages of vanilla.

Groups	B1 vs. S1, D1, F1, and F2	B1 vs. S1, D1, F1, and F2	F2 vs. S1, D1, F1, and B1	F2 vs. S1, D1, F1, and B1	B1 vs. S1, D1, F1, and F2	B1 vs. S1, D1, F1, and F2	F2 vs. S1, D1, F1, and B1
Sample size	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Number of groups	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Test statistic (R)	0.148	0.756	0.958	0.211	0.560	0.486	0.296
p	0.167	0.005	0.005	0.070	0.001	0.010	0.097
Number of permutations	999	999	999	999	999	999	999
Kinds of microbe	Bacteria	Bacteria	Bacteria	Bacteria	Fungi	Fungi	Fungi
Unifrac distances	Unweighted	Weighted	Unweighted	Weighted	Unweighted	Weighted	Weighted