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Table 2 PERMANOVA analysis of the effect of dietary treatments, periods and heifers on rumen bacteria dissimilarities based on Bray-Curtis and unweighted Unifrac

From: Metagenomic analysis of rumen microbial population in dairy heifers fed a high grain diet supplemented with dicarboxylic acids or polyphenols

Source

Bray-curtis

Unweighted unifrac

 

pseudo-F

P-value

pseudo-F

P-value

Dietary treatment

1.208

0.10

1.155

0.09

Period

1.328

0.02

1.174

0.06

Heifer

1.175

0.11

1.135

0.09

Pair-wise tests

Control vs Organic acid

 

0.14

 

0.22

Organic acid vs Polyphenols

 

0.30

 

0.15

Control vs Polyphenols

 

0.11

 

0.05

  1. P-values were calculated on 999 possible permutations