showed a trendp-value=0.053
Beta diversity compositional analysis using PERMANOVA with 999 permutations showed no significant differences in Bray–Curtis dissimilarity index (p-value=0.121), Weighted Unifrac (p-value=0.271), Unweighted Unifrac (p-value=0.300), and Aitchison distance (p-value=0.132), while the Jaccard index showed a trend (p-value=0.053).