Table 2. PERMANOVA analysis of bacteria/archaea and fungi.

16S rRNA
	Four termite species (This work)		11 termite species
	Unweighted Unifrac	Weighted Unifrac	Unweighted Unifrac	Weighted Unifrac
Pseudo F	8.5445	67.0377	1.5075	1.5407
p value	0.001	0.001	0.031	0.199
	Diet groups (Grass and Wood)		Based on diet groups (Grass, Humus, Litter, and Wood)
Pseudo F	4.5241	12.4488	3.74797	5.37108
p value	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.005
			Based on termite subfamily
Pseudo F			1.61667	0.511453
p value			0.097	0.568
ITS (Bray-Curtis distance dissimilarity matrix)
	Four termite species (This work)
Pseudo F	13.1240
p value	0.005
	Diet groups (Grass and Wood)
Pseudo F	3.8839
p value	0.03

Note:

The statistical analysis of ITS sequence data were performed based on the Hellinger transformation and Bray–Curtis distance-based dissimilarity matrix.