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. 2022 Jul 6;17:36. doi: 10.1186/s40793-022-00429-x

Table 1.

Effects of exposure to microplastics (MPs) and deltamethrin (DMT) on the host microbiome of Daphnia, damselfly larvae and dragonfly larvae

Organism Variable MPs DMT MPs x DMT
Daphnia Chao
F3,13 0.623 6.940 1.135
p-value 0.444 0.021 0.306
Shannon
F3,13 0.523 0.482 12.057
p-value 0.482 0.5 0.004
Phylogenetic
F3,13 0.053 3.347 0.194
p-value 0.821 0.09 0.666
Permanova
F3,13 0.604 1.356 2.729
p-value 0.696 0.248 0.027
Damselfly Chao
F3,20 20.281 5.344 0.787
p-value  < 0.001 0.032 0.386
Shannon
F3,20 16.244 3.059 0.111
p-value  < 0.001 0.101 0.743
Phylogenetic
F3,20 16.226 2.02 1.67
p-value  < 0.001 0.171 0.211
Permanova
F3,20 6.876 1.815 0.888
p-value 0.005 0.159 0.403
Dragonfly Chao
F3,32 2.958 2.639 4.569
p-value 0.096 0.116 0.042
Shannon
F3,32 4.308 2.061 3.436
p-value 0.045 0.156 0.071
Phylogenetic
F3,32 4.666 1.621 7.136
p-value 0.041 0.210 0.013
Permanova
F3,32 2.626 0.663 2.467
p-value 0.016 0.749 0.020

The host microbiome was studied as Alpha (Chao, Shannon, Phylogenetic) and Beta diversity (Permanova). Significant and marginally non-significant p-values are highlighted in bold