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Table 1 Adonis statistical assessment of beta-diversity metrics driven by participant or host DNA depletion method

From: Improving saliva shotgun metagenomics by chemical host DNA depletion

Beta-diversity metric

Variable

Degrees of freedom

R 2

F.model

p value

Unweighted UniFrac

Method

5

0.092

6.345

0.001

Participant

7

0.548

26.932

0.001

Weighted UniFrac

Method

5

0.118

12.331

0.001

Participant

7

0.644

47.947

0.001

Bray-Curtis

Method

5

0.149

14.444

0.001

Participant

7

0.594

41.019

0.001

Binary Jaccard

Method

5

0.168

9.537

0.001

Participant

7

0.396

16.059

0.001