Table 4
The partial Mantel tests on connectivity vs. the OTU significances of soil geochemical variables and soil temperature in warming pyrosquencing molecular ecological network
Phylogeny # nodes GSof soil geochemistryapartialGSof temperature GSof temperature partialGSof soil geochemistry
rMb Pc rM P
All detected OTUs 177 0.104 0.018 0.159 0.003
Acidobacteria 35 0.059 0.234 −0.054 0.800
Actinobacteria 63 −0.033 0.650 0.077 0.135
Chloroflexi 5 −0.339 0.663 0.367 0.108
Planctomycetacia 6 −0.082 0.521 −0.202 0.788
α-Proteobacteria 26 −0.057 0.721 0.096 0.155
β-Proteobacteria 12 0.590 0.013 −0.001 0.430
δ-Proteobacteria 6 0.338 0.088 −0.298 0.877
γ-Proteobacteria 4 0.030 0.772 0.796 0.243
Verrucomiobia 5 0.926 0.013 −0.755 1.000

aSoil variables used for OTU significance calculations: pH values, NO3-Nitrogen and soil carbon contents.

bCorrelation coefficient based on Mantel test.

cThe significance (probability) of Mantel test.

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Deng et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2012 13:113   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-113

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