a trend toward significancep = .053
Significant differences were also measured by the weighted UniFrac (p = .039) and Jaccard metrics (p < .04), while a trend toward significance was noted in the Bray-Curtis metric (p = .053) ( Appendix Fig.
Significant differences were also measured by the weighted UniFrac (p = .039) and Jaccard metrics (p < .04), while a trend toward significance was noted in the Bray-Curtis metric (p = .053) ( Appendix Fig.
Levels of statistical significance Alpha and beta diversity analyses, using Kruskal-Wallis and PERMANOVA pairwise test respectively, were considered to differ significantly between the groups based on a p value < .05, while p value of > .05 and < .1 was considered to indicate a trend towards significance.