Microbiome differences between wild and aquarium whitespotted eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari)

Table 3 Pairwise results for all permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) for all β-diversity metrics between aquarium cownose (Rhinoptera bonasus) and aquarium and wild whitespotted eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari) for different body sites

Comparison	Diversity index	Cloaca	Gill	Skin	Water
Aquarium whitespotted eagle ray × wild whitespotted eagle ray	Bray–Curtis	NS	p ≤ 0.01	p ≤ 0.001	p ≤ 0.001
	Weighted	NS	p ≤ 0.01	p ≤ 0.01	p ≤ 0.001
	Unweighted	p ≤ 0.01	p ≤ 0.001	p ≤ 0.001	p ≤ 0.001
Aquarium whitespotted eagle ray × aquarium cownose ray	Bray–Curtis	NS	p ≤ 0.01	p ≤ 0.001	NA
	Weighted	p ≤ 0.05	p ≤ 0.05	p ≤ 0.01	NA
	Unweighted	p ≤ 0.01	p ≤ 0.001	p ≤ 0.001	NA

NS indicates not significant (p > 0.05). NA indicates no possible comparison. β-diversity metrics include Bray–Curtis, weighted UniFrac, and unweighted UniFrac

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