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Table 4 Temporally stability of microbiota at staphylococcal carriage sites

From: The shared microbiota of humans and companion animals as evaluated from Staphylococcus carriage sites

Host species

Anatomic site

Beta diversity metric

R statistic and significance

Cats

Nares

Weighted UniFrac

−0.0623

Unweighted UniFrac

0.0138

Bray-Curtis

−0.0260

Binary Jaccard

0.1084

Cats

Oral cavity

Weighted UniFrac

−0.0566

Unweighted UniFrac

−0.0325

Bray-Curtis

−0.0119

Binary Jaccard

−0.0433

Dogs

Nares

Weighted UniFrac

−0.0190

Unweighted UniFrac

−0.0003

Bray-Curtis

−0.0054

Binary Jaccard

0.0337

Dogs

Oral cavity

Weighted UniFrac

−0.0119

Unweighted UniFrac

0.0005

Bray-Curtis

−0.0087

Binary Jaccard

−0.0624

Humans

Nares

Weighted UniFrac

−0.0223

Unweighted UniFrac

0.1084*

Bray-Curtis

0.0309

Binary Jaccard

0.1180*

Humans

Inguinal/axilla

Weighted UniFrac

−0.0017

Unweighted UniFrac

0.0966

Bray-Curtis

0.0336

Binary Jaccard

0.1962**

Humans

Healing lesions

Weighted UniFrac

−0.1562

Unweighted UniFrac

−0.2083

Bray-Curtis

−0.2188

Binary Jaccard

−0.2396

  1. ANOSIM analyses summary assessing various metadata associations of microbial community distances over two time points using weighted and unweighted UniFrac, Bray-Curtis, and Jaccard indexes. *p < 0.05 and **p < 0.005 (FDR adjusted).