Table 3.

Best models describing bacterial microbiota beta diversity (quantified as Bray–Curtis dissimilarity, Jaccard distance, and unweighted UniFrac distance, respectively)

		Mean squares	Modeled F	DF	R2	p
Bray–Curtis	tick stage/sex	0.84	3.50	2	0.08	< 0.01
	residuals	0.24		76	0.91
Jaccard	elevation	0.36	1.48	1	0.02	0.02
	tick stage/sex	0.51	2.11	2	0.05	< 0.01
	residuals	0.24		75	0.93
weighted UniFrac	tick stage/sex	0.26	3.31	2	0.08	< 0.01
	residuals	0.08		76	0.92