Microbiota in intestinal digesta of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), observed from late freshwater stage until one year in seawater, and effects of functional ingredients: a case study from a commercial sized research site in the Arctic region

Table 1 Result of the PERMANOVA analysis of the weighted and unweighted UniFrac^a

PERMANOVA	Weighted UniFrac		Unweighted UniFrac
PERMANOVA	Pseudo-F	P	Pseudo-F	P
Sampling time points	7.518	0.001	3.008	0.001
Pairwise comparison
FW-Ref vs SW1-Ref		0.005		0.025
FW-Ref vs SW2-Ref		0.001		0.001
FW-Ref vs SW3-Ref		0.001		0.001
SW1-Ref vs SW2-Ref		0.001		0.001
SW1-Ref vs SW3-Ref		0.001		0.002
SW2-Ref vs SW3-Ref		0.001		0.001
Dietary effect at each sampling time point
FW-Ref vs FW-Test	0.949	0.409	1.056	0.347
SW1-Ref vs SW1-Test	2.331	0.05	1.271	0.01
SW2-Ref vs SW2-Test	2.099	0.129	2.937	0.001
SW3-Ref vs SW3-Test	0.698	0.406	1.176	0.146

^aFW, sampling time point in freshwater (May 2016); SW1, the first seawater sampling time point (June 2016); SW2 the second seawater sampling time point (November 2016); SW3, the final seawater sampling time point (April 2017); Ref: diet without functional ingredients; Test, diet with functional ingredients

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