| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |
| ASV | Amplicon sequence variant |
| FWS | Fecal water syndrome |
| GIT | Gastrointestinal tract |
| LEfSe | Linear discriminant analysis effect size |
| PCoA | Principal coordinate analysis |
| PCR | Polymerase chain reaction |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational multivariate analysis of variance |