Table 2.

Mixed linear models testing the association between community structure stability and microbiome predictors.

	Complete model	Reduced model
Shannon Diversity	b = − 0.031 ± 0.009SE, p < 0.01	b = − 0.024 ± 0.009SE, p < 0.01
F. nucleatum	b = 0.07 ± 0.089SE. p = 0.44	b = 0.20 ± 0.068SE, p < 0.01
Bacteroidetes	b = 0.12 ± 0.057SE, p = 0.032

F. nucleatum and Bacteroidetes mean abundances over all sampling periods were used as predictors. The “complete model” includes all predictors, while the “reduced model” removes Bacteroidetes mean abundance.