Parasitism by endoparasitoid wasps alters the internal but not the external microbiome in host caterpillars

Table 1 Results of PERMANOVA on bacterial and fungal community compositions (caterpillars only)^a

	Bacteria						Fungi
	E and I (n = 204)		E (n = 102)		I (n = 102)		E and I (n = 191)		E (n = 98)		I (n = 93)
	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p
Habitat	82.136	< 0.001	42.382	< 0.001	46.534	< 0.001	17.987	< 0.001	14.972	< 0.001	5.635	< 0.001
Health status	15.839	< 0.001	0.891	0.476	37.405	< 0.001	3.029	< 0.001	2.0027	0.019	2.093	0.003
Habitat: Health status	2.244	0.045	0.666	0.836	4.422	0.003	2.663	0.002	1.715	0.044	2.189	0.003
Origin	16.950	< 0.001					3.827	< 0.001
Origin: Health status	15.337	< 0.001					1.073	0.357
Origin: Habitat	5.981	< 0.001					2.074	0.008
Habitat: Origin: Health status	2.122	0.045					1.278	0.147

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