approaching significancep =0.060
A Mantel test using Spearman correlation revealed that time point did not significantly correlate with microbiome beta diversity, though p -values for all distance metrics used were consistently approaching significance (weighted UniFrac r =0.129, p =0.060; unweighted UniFrac r =0.129, p =0.060; Bray-Curtis r =0.129, p =0.051).