Table 3.
Comparison of the intestinal microbiota structure of pig groupsa.
Timeb | Compared pig groups | AMOVA (p-value) | ||
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Yue & Clayton index | Jaccard index | |||
t0 | Biter | Negative | 0.001* | 0.246 |
Bitten | Negative | 0.001* | 0.306 | |
Biter | Bitten | 0.476 | 0.439 | |
t1 | Biter | Negative | 0.244 | 0.318 |
Bitten | Negative | 0.295 | 0.55 | |
Biter | Bitten | 0.866 | 0.46 |
Based on 1,000 subsampling of 32,374 sequences.
t0, immediately following selection of the pig groups; and t1, 4 weeks later.
Statistically significant differences after adjusting the alpha threshold downwards with the sequential Benjamini and Hochberg procedure (39).