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Table 1 Evaluation of variation between MBRA communities inoculated with different fecal samples by analysis of similarities (ANOSIM, [32]) and permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA, [33])

From: Cultivation of stable, reproducible microbial communities from different fecal donors using minibioreactor arrays (MBRAs)

 

Bray-Curtis similarity

Sorenson similarity

ANOSIM R-statistic

PERMANOVA

ANOSIM R-statistic

PERMANOVA

F value

R 2

F value

R 2

Donor A-donor B

0.94

89.5

0.44

0.9

54.8

0.32

Donor A-donor C

0.99

106.7

0.49

0.98

76.4

0.4

Donor B-donor C

0.99

115.0

0.5

0.93

61.6

0.35

Donor A-pool

0.58

40.9

0.19

0.65

35.1

0.17

Donor B-pool

0.57

48.8

0.21

0.74

39.2

0.18

Donor C-pool

0.97

106.9

0.38

0.9

68.8

0.28

  1. All p values were 0.001 based upon 999 permutations