Maternal milk and fecal microbes guide the spatiotemporal development of mucosa-associated microbiota and barrier function in the porcine neonatal gut

Table 1 Factors contributing to the variation in intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota

Items	Weighted UniFrac		Unweighted UniFrac		Bray-Curtis
Items	R²	P value*	R²	P value*	R²	P value*
Intestinal segment	0.357	< 0.001	0.108	< 0.001	0.229	< 0.001
Age	0.136	< 0.001	0.110	< 0.001	0.123	< 0.001
Weaning	0.019	< 0.001	0.032	< 0.001	0.021	< 0.001
Breed	0.006	0.064	0.011	< 0.001	0.012	< 0.001
Sex	0.002	0.525	0.004	0.061	0.003	0.315

*PERMANOVA was performed, and P values in italics represent statistical significance (P < 0.05)

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