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Table 1 Effects of exposure to microplastics (MPs) and deltamethrin (DMT) on the host microbiome of Daphnia, damselfly larvae and dragonfly larvae

From: Microplastic exposure across trophic levels: effects on the host–microbiota of freshwater organisms

Organism

Variable

MPs

DMT

MPs x DMT

Daphnia

Chao

F3,13

0.623

6.940

1.135

p-value

0.444

0.021

0.306

Shannon

F3,13

0.523

0.482

12.057

p-value

0.482

0.5

0.004

Phylogenetic

F3,13

0.053

3.347

0.194

p-value

0.821

0.09

0.666

Permanova

F3,13

0.604

1.356

2.729

p-value

0.696

0.248

0.027

Damselfly

Chao

F3,20

20.281

5.344

0.787

p-value

 < 0.001

0.032

0.386

Shannon

F3,20

16.244

3.059

0.111

p-value

 < 0.001

0.101

0.743

Phylogenetic

F3,20

16.226

2.02

1.67

p-value

 < 0.001

0.171

0.211

Permanova

F3,20

6.876

1.815

0.888

p-value

0.005

0.159

0.403

Dragonfly

Chao

F3,32

2.958

2.639

4.569

p-value

0.096

0.116

0.042

Shannon

F3,32

4.308

2.061

3.436

p-value

0.045

0.156

0.071

Phylogenetic

F3,32

4.666

1.621

7.136

p-value

0.041

0.210

0.013

Permanova

F3,32

2.626

0.663

2.467

p-value

0.016

0.749

0.020

  1. The host microbiome was studied as Alpha (Chao, Shannon, Phylogenetic) and Beta diversity (Permanova). Significant and marginally non-significant p-values are highlighted in bold
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Environmental Microbiome

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