Table 3.

Beta diversity analysis with different distance measures determining microbiota interindividual diversity in the broiler ceca

		Bray-Curtis		Jaccard		Unweighted UniFrac		Weighted UniFrac
	n	R2 a	Pb	R2	P	R2	P	R2	P
Dietary treatment	24	0.348	< 0.001	0.281	< 0.001	0.413	< 0.001	0.516	< 0.001
Effect of cereal type
Wheat vs. Maize	24	0.205	< 0.001	0.162	< 0.001	0.350	< 0.001	0.476	< 0.001
Effect of enzyme supplementation (Control vs. Enzyme; stratified per cereal type)
Wheat (WC vs. WE)	12	0.276	0.012	0.204	0.014	0.083	0.585	0.064	0.729
Maize (MC vs. ME)	12	0.054	0.765	0.067	0.741	0.115	0.163	0.095	0.351

^aPercentage of the variation between broilers explained, ^bP-value permutational analysis of variance (PERMANOVA)