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Table 1 Models of the effects of life type and host family (phylogeny) on functional community profiles

From: Ecological specificity of the metagenome in a set of lower termite species supports contribution of the microbiome to adaptation of the host

 

model

AIC

R2

p

Protists

all functions

null

−41.8

  

host family

−49.0

0.27

0.001

host life type

−45.4

0.16

0.001

information storage and processing

null

−36.8

  

host life type

−39.0

0.11

0.001

host family

−38.4

0.09

0.001

Bacteria

all functions

null

−85.0

  

host family

−92.7

0.27

0.001

host life type

−90.1

0.20

0.001

metabolism

null

−92.4

  

host life type

−98.1

0.22

0.001

host family

−96.8

0.18

0.001

  1. Effects were analyzed with Redundancy Analysis using the functional abundance table as response variable. Host family was the best explanatory variable for the combination of all protist functions, however life type explained more variance (R2) and produced a lower AIC for the category “information storage and processing” than host family. For all bacterial functions taken together, host family again explained a larger proportion of the variance, while life type was the best explanatory variable in the category “metabolism”