TABLE 5.

The effect of treatment on the Jaccard dissimilarity and weighted UniFrac distance matrices of the turkey cecal microbiota at 0, 24, and 48 h post-inoculation (hpi) of Salmonella Typhimurium and Reading during an in vitro turkey cecal model with and without the supplementation of Original XPC^TM (P < 0.05, n = 16, N = 96).

ANOSIM beta diversity1,2		Jaccard dissimilarity matrix			Weighed Unifrac distance matrix
Group 1	Group 2	R3	p-value	q-value	R	p-value	q-value
0 CON	0 XPC	0.013	0.340	0.425	0.048	0.188	0.217
0 CON	24 CON	0.010	0.332	0.425	0.136	0.049	0.074
0 CON	24 XPC	0.070	0.144	0.240	0.129	0.061	0.083
0 CON	48 CON	0.000	0.391	0.451	0.254	0.015	0.028
0 CON	48 XPC	0.126	0.056	0.107	0.193	0.018	0.030
0 XPC	24 CON	0.398	0.003	0.011	0.407	0.001	0.004
0 XPC	24 XPC	0.025	0.269	0.404	0.079	0.115	0.144
0 XPC	48 CON	0.482	0.001	0.010	0.595	0.001	0.004
0 XPC	48 XPC	0.131	0.057	0.107	0.216	0.008	0.017
24 CON	24 XPC	0.271	0.006	0.015	0.296	0.002	0.005
24 CON	48 CON	−0.085	0.910	0.910	−0.026	0.568	0.609
24 CON	48 XPC	0.427	0.002	0.010	0.326	0.001	0.004
24 XPC	48 CON	0.305	0.006	0.015	0.370	0.001	0.004
24 XPC	48 XPC	−0.029	0.618	0.662	−0.034	0.653	0.653
48 CON	48 XPC	0.431	0.002	0.010	0.334	0.002	0.005

¹Beta diversity metrics were analyzed using pairwise comparisons in ANOSIM.

²Bolded values are those with significant p and q values.

³R, the ANOSIM statistic, compares the mean of ranked dissimilarities between groups to the mean of ranked dissimilarities within groups.