Cloacal swabs and alcohol bird specimens are good proxies for compositional analyses of gut microbial communities of Great tits (Parus major)

Table 1 The results of pairwiseAdonis analyses (Bray-Curtis distances) between gut microbial communities of different regions of the digestive tract, including cloacal swabs

Comparisons	F	R²	P adjusted
Swabs vs. Cloaca	3.576	0.1517	0.0420*
Swabs vs. Large Intestine	3.809	0.1599	0.0210*
Swabs vs. Ilium	4.164	0.1723	0.0210*
Swabs vs. Middle of Small Intestine	2.182	0.1137	0.0630
Swabs vs. Beginning of Small intestine	1.779	0.1128	0.3990
Swabs vs. Stomach	2.425	0.1187	0.0210*
Cloaca vs. Large Intestine	0.6861	0.0367	1
Cloaca vs. Ilium	1.042	0.0547	1
Cloaca vs. Middle of Small Intestine	1.569	0.0946	1
Cloaca vs. Beginning of Small intestine	2.024	0.1443	0.5880
Cloaca vs. Stomach	1.783	0.1003	0.9240
Large Intestine vs. Ilium	0.5702	0.0307	1
Large Intestine vs. Middle of Small Intestine	1.421	0.0865	1
Large Intestine vs. Beginning of Small intestine	1.720	0.1254	1
Large Intestine vs. Stomach	1.440	0.0826	1
Ilium vs. Middle of Small Intestine	0.9653	0.0605	1
Ilium vs. Beginning of Small intestine	1.720	0.1254	0.5880
Ilium vs. Stomach	1.391	0.0799	0.9240
Middle of Small Intestine vs. Beginning of Small intestine	0.8934	0.0903	1
Middle of Small Intestine vs. Stomach	0.6036	0.0444	1
Beginning of Small intestine vs. Stomach	0.8747	0.0804	1

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