Multivariate analyses were conducted to assess the prevalence of introduced species in these communities and to compare the distribution of species on natural and artificial substrata of this bay to identify possible discrepancies in habitat use.
Multivariate analyses were conducted to: (i) assess the prevalence of introduced species on the sessile marine invertebrate communities analyzed and (ii) compare the distribution of species on natural and artificial substrata of this bay.
Two-way sensitivity analyses were conducted to establish the ranges in the outcome estimate introduced by two of the inputs contributing most to the uncertainty in the model.
To reduce the effect of potential biases introduced by linkage disequilibrium, all analyses were conducted using whole genes rather than the SFP themselves.
Mediation analyses were conducted by fitting a series of three regression models according to the procedures introduced by Baron and Kenny (10).
The analyses were conducted on sub-samples from one stool sample from a healthy donor to exclude the variability introduced by differences in stool composition from different donors.
Final analyses were conducted September through December 2018.
Two sets of analyses were conducted.
Data analyses were conducted offline using Matlab.
Data analyses were conducted by the 2−ΔΔCt method42−ΔΔCt
Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA740.
