Multilevel social structure and diet shape the gut microbiota of the gelada monkey, the only grazing primate

Microbiome

Table 1 PERMANOVA test results for effects on the GI microbiota using 1000 permutations and Bray-Curtis distances. The R-squared values indicate the amount of between-sample variation explained by each variable

Factor	R ²	P value	Groupings
Individual	0.204	0.001	Monkey #1–39 (n = 1–12; mean = 8)
Reproductive unit	0.058	0.001	Unit #1–8 (n = 8–84; mean = 40)
Season	0.035	0.001	Dry (n = 142), wet (n = 174)
Age	0.008	0.001	Prime (n = 246), old (n = 70)
Fecundity status	0.023	0.041	T1 (n = 27), T2 (n = 13), T3 (n = 32), PPA (n = 178), cycling (n = 66)
Coenurosis		n.s.	Swelling (n = 235), no swelling (n = 81)

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