Table 2.

Genera of OTUs associated with Allomerus and Tetraponera ant cuticles

Allomerus	Phylum or class	HPAD Station	CNAO Station	HPAO Station	Avg	StErr
Quality-filtered pyrotags		5312	5661	5454
Genus
Actinomycetales1	Actinobacteria	0.6	–	1.1	0.6	0.6
Actinomycetales1	Actinobacteria	–	1.1	1.0	0.7	0.6
Microbacterium	Actinobacteria	0.3	8.9	–	3.1	5.1
Actinomycetales1	Actinobacteria	0.1	1.1	0.2	0.5	0.6
Microbacterium	Actinobacteria	6.3	1.2	8.0	5.2	3.5
Brevibacterium	Actinobacteria	–	3.4	0.6	1.3	1.8
Actinomycetales1	Actinobacteria	0.9	2.0	1.5	1.4	0.5
Sphingobacterium	Bacteroidetes	0.3	0.1	1.2	0.5	0.6
Sphingobacterium	Bacteroidetes	–	–	2.6	0.9	1.5
Sphingobacterium	Bacteroidetes	1.6	0.4	0.6	0.9	0.7
Bacillus	Firmicutes	0.5	0.1	1.9	0.8	1.0
Staphylococcus	Firmicutes	<0.1	1.1	0.4	0.5	0.6
Bosea	α-proteobacteria	0.8	0.1	1.8	0.9	0.8
Devosia	α-proteobacteria	–	<0.1	1.1	0.4	0.7
Rhizobium	α-proteobacteria	1.3	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.7
Phyllobacteriaceae2	α-proteobacteria	1.1	<0.1	–	0.4	0.6
Bradyrhizobiaceae2	α-proteobacteria	0.8	0.1	1.3	0.7	0.6
Rhizobiales1	α-proteobacteria	2.7	3.5	2.5	2.9	0.5
Ochrobactrum	α-proteobacteria	2.6	10.4	1.3	4.8	4.9
Ochrobactrum	α-proteobacteria	4.6	12.4	0.2	5.8	6.2
Bosea	α-proteobacteria	1.7	2.4	1.3	1.8	0.6
Rhizobium	α-proteobacteria	0.9	<0.1	1.5	0.8	0.7
Bradyrhizobiaceae2	α-proteobacteria	0.7	1.6	0.3	0.9	0.6
Comamonas	β-proteobacteria	1.4	–	–	0.5	0.8
Shinella	β-proteobacteria	0.3	0.3	1.1	0.6	0.4
Shinella	β-proteobacteria	1.0	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.5
Enterobacteriaceae2	γ-proteobacteria	0.8	0.3	1.6	0.9	0.7
Stenotrophomonas	γ-proteobacteria	<0.1	1.0	0.6	0.5	0.5
Serratia	γ-proteobacteria	12.5	15.6	1.4	9.8	7.5
Stenotrophomonas	γ-proteobacteria	1.9	4.4	0.9	2.4	1.8
Enterobacteriaceae2	γ-proteobacteria	0.1	4.6	<0.1	1.6	2.6
Enterobacteriaceae2	γ-proteobacteria	1.1	0.5	1.6	1.1	0.5
Enterobacteriaceae2	γ-proteobacteria	<0.1	0.5	1.1	0.5	0.5
Erwinia	γ-proteobacteria	38.6	5.3	43.7	29.2	20.8
Enterobacteriaceae2	γ-proteobacteria	1.1	1.1	1.9	1.4	0.5
Enterobacter	γ-proteobacteria	0.4	3.7	0.4	1.5	1.9
Total		86.9	87.5	84.8

Tetraponera		Kitengela	Ngong Hills	Mpala Road
Quality-filtered pyrotags		2709	2601	3078
Genus
Curtobacterium	Actinobacteria	1.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.4
Microbacteriaceae2	Actinobacteria	1.6	0.8	1.8	1.4	0.5
Actinomycetospora	Actinobacteria	<0.1	0.1	1.4	0.5	0.8
Staphylococcus	Firmicutes	–	0.5	19.8	6.7	11.3
Geobacillus	Firmicutes	10.2	8.2	2.8	7.1	3.8
Weissella	Firmicutes	4.4	0.9	–	1.8	2.3
Rhizobiales1	α-proteobacteria	1.6	0.8	0.4	0.9	0.6
Sphingomonadaceae2	α-proteobacteria	0.7	5.3	–	2.0	2.9
Brevundimonas	α-proteobacteria	1.3	0.1	0.4	0.6	0.6
Sphingobium	α-proteobacteria	<0.1	–	1.1	0.4	0.6
Serratia	γ-proteobacteria	1.9	3.5	3.3	2.9	0.9
Serratia	γ-proteobacteria	27.6	64.8	59.6	50.7	20.2
Enterobacteriaceae2	γ-proteobacteria	2.7	–	–	0.9	1.5
Enterobacteriaceae2	γ-proteobacteria	30.7	–	<0.1	10.2	17.7
Halomonas	γ-proteobacteria	0.8	1.0	0.2	0.7	0.4
Total		84.4	86.2	91.1

Only OTUs comprising ≥1% relative pyrotag abundance are shown. Also shown is the average percent abundance (Avg) and standard error (StErr) of taxa. Taxonomy at the level of class is shown for Proteobacteria. OTU, operational taxonomic unit; HPAD, Hirtella-hosted A. decemarticulatus; CNAO, Cordia-hosted A. octoarticulatus; HPAO, Hirtella-hosted A. octoarticulatus.

The ¹order or ²family is reported in instances when a genus-level classification could not be made.