. 2021 Oct 21;12:769012. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.769012

Table 1.

Dissimilarity tests of gut microbial communities of whales, dolphins, and fur seals based on Bray-Curtis and Jaccard distance.

Group	Bray-Curtis	Jaccard
Group	p	p
Group (Whales and Dolphins)
Group (Whales and Dolphins)	PERMANOVA	0.001(^*), F=7.569	0.001(^*), F=6.056
MRPP	0.001(^*), R=0.636	0.001(^*), R=0.583
ANOSIM	0.001(^*), R=0.577	0.001(^*), R=0.326
Group (Whales and Fur seals)
Group (Whales and Fur seals)	PERMANOVA	0.001(^*), F=16.03	0.001(^*), F=12.71
MRPP	0.001(^*), R=0.559	0.001(^*), R=0.557
ANOSIM	0.001(^*), R=0.829	0.001(^*), R=0.827
Group (Dolphins and Fur seals)
Group (Dolphins and Fur seals)	PERMANOVA	0.001(^*), F=10.93	0.001(^*), F=8.715
MRPP	0.001(^*), R=0.705	0.001(^*), R=0.685
ANOSIM	0.001(^*), R=0.919	0.001(^*), R=0.872
Group (Pacific white-sided dolphins and common bottlenose dolphin)
	PERMANOVA	0.085, F=1.988	0.061, F=1.454
MRPP	0.090, R=0.758	0.062, R=0.727
ANOSIM	0.078, R=0.259	0.158, R=0.135

Difference is significant at 0.001 level. Whales refer to belugas; dolphins refer to Pacific white-sided dolphins and common bottlenose dolphin; and fur seals refer to Cape fur seals.