Figure 4
ANOSIM and community dissimilarity for the whole, core and satellite microbiota between microbiomes. Given is the ANOSIM test statistic (R, denoted as circles) that two compared groups are significantly different at the P<0.05 level (all tests were significant; P<0.0001 in each instances). ANOSIM R- and P-values were generated using the Bray–Curtis measure of similarity. R scales from +1 to −1. +1 indicates that all the most similar samples are within the same groups. R=0 occurs if the high and low similarities are perfectly mixed and bear no relationship to the group. A value of −1 indicates that the most similar samples are all outside of the groups. Also given are the Bray–Curtis quantitative measures of mean dissimilarity between groups, denoted as columns. Error bars represent the s.d. of the mean dissimilarities.
