Table 3.
Correlations between SCFA levels and microbial taxa in squirrel cecal contents
| Acetate |
Propionate |
Butyrate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mM | % | mM | % | mM | % | |
| Bacteroidetes | − | − | − | − | ||
| Bacteroidia | − | − | − | − | ||
| Firmicutes | + | − | + | + | + | |
| Clostridia | + | − | + | + | + | |
| Lachnospiraceae | + | − | + | + | + | |
| Verrucomicrobia | − | − | ||||
| Verrucomicrobiae | − | − | ||||
| Verrucomicrobiaceae | − | |||||
| Proteobacteria | ||||||
| Alphaproteobacteria | + | + | + | + | ||
| Tenericutes | + | |||||
| Mollicutes | + | + | + | |||
Shown are significant (P < 0.05) positive (+) and negative (−) correlations between SCFA concentrations (mM) or molar proportions (%) and microbial taxa.