Guts within guts: the microbiome of the intestinal helminth parasite Ascaris suum is derived but distinct from its host

Table 4 Permutational analysis of variance for bacterial taxa composition in Ascaris from infected pigs

	Df	Sums of squares	Mean sqs.	F-model	R²	Pr (> F)
Host individual	8	4.8524	0.607	10.209	0.532	0.001***
Worm sex	1	0.0811	0.081	1.364	0.009	0.225
Dominant bacteria	4	2.2273	0.557	9.372	0.244	0.001***
Residuals	33	1.9606	0.059	-	0.215	-
Total	46	9.1214	-	-	1.000	-

Df degrees of freedom, F-model pseudo-F-test statistic, R² variance explained and p-value based on 999 permutations
Signif. codes, 0***, 0.001**, 0.01*, 0.05‘.’, 0.1‘ ’, 1

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