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Table 2 DistLM results correlating POC and DOC specific filtration rates (μmol/s/L sponge) and microbial community structure in sponges from Florida and Belize, showing analysis for all species, by category (HMA/LMA), and for all pairwise species comparisons

From: Testing the relationship between microbiome composition and flux of carbon and nutrients in Caribbean coral reef sponges

Dataset

P value

R 2

POC

DOC

POC

DOC

All species

0.001*

0.154

0.084

0.022

All LMA species

0.002*

0.895

0.096

0.015

All HMA species

0.403

0.965

0.033

0.013

Pairwise LMA comparisons

 M. laxissima–N. digitalis

0.003*

0.746

0.180

0.046

 M. laxissima–C. plicifera

0.001*

0.965

0.276

0.020

 M. laxissima–C. vaginalis

0.002*

0.057

0.105

0.101

 N. digitalis–C. plicifera

0.289

0.907

0.066

0.033

 N. digitalis–C. vaginalis

0.477

0.958

0.062

0.038

 C. plicifera–C. vaginalis

0.167

0.899

0.063

0.027

Pairwise HMA comparisons

 A. tubulata–V. gigantea

0.229

0.884

0.089

0.030

 A. tubulata–V. reiswigi

0.133

0.777

0.116

0.041

 A. tubulata–X. muta

0.562

0.301

0.041

0.069

 V. gigantea–V. reiswigi

0.340

0.865

0.099

0.052

 V. gigantea–X. muta

0.084

0.609

0.126

0.065

 V. reiswigi–X. muta

0.191

0.695

0.093

0.058

Pairwise LMA-HMA comparisons

 C. plicifera–A. tubulata

0.001*

0.586

0.295

0.029

 C. plicifera–V. gigantea

0.081

0.457

0.138

0.046

 C. plicifera–V. reiswigi

0.007*

0.795

0.286

0.027

 C. plicifera–X. muta

0.005*

0.799

0.334

0.019

 M. laxissima–A. tubulata

0.001*

0.355

0.156

0.055

 M. laxissima–V. gigantea

0.016*

0.729

0.172

0.044

 M. laxissima–V. reiswigi

0.605

0.060

0.049

0.134

 M. laxissima–X. muta

0.001*

0.812

0.144

0.028

 N. digitalis–A. tubulata

0.020*

0.338

0.181

0.074

 N. digitalis–V. gigantea

0.348

0.352

0.088

0.094

 N. digitalis–V. reiswigi

0.082

0.599

0.215

0.072

 N. digitalis–X. muta

0.035*

0.452

0.228

0.06

 C. vaginalis–A. tubulata

0.172

0.034

0.077

0.150

 C. vaginalis–V. gigantea

0.938

0.116

0.023

0.118

 C. vaginalis–V. reiswigi

0.190

0.135

0.098

0.127

 C. vaginalis–X. muta

0.131

0.226

0.092

0.081

  1. Asterisks (*) indicate significant P-values
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