Bray–Curtis dissimilarity within and between communities from DNA and RNA libraries indicated no significant differences between the RNA (cDNA) and DNA pairs (PERMANOVA R 2 : 2.3%, FDR q : 0.254). The RNA (cDNA) libraries showed the highest inter-replicate dissimilarity, followed by the DNA in most cases. Columns labeled with the “sample_DNA” (e.g., Screen_DNA) show dissimilarities within the indicated DNA libraries. Those annotated “type_RNA” (e.g., Screen_RNA) show calculations within the RNA libraries, and “type_between” (e.g., Screen_between) represents distances between paired samples in DNA vs. RNA libraries.
