TABLE 1.

Dissimilarity tests of OTUs and predicted function genes (by PICRUSt) based on Bray-Curtis distance.

	MRPP		ANOSIM		PERMANOVA
	r	p	r	p	r	p
OTUs	0.6037	0.001	0.9042	0.001	8.3007	0.001
function genes	0.3827	0.001	0.5728	0.001	10.5800	0.001

Significant differences (P < 0.05) are indicated in bold.