Table 1. Core gut bacterial genera and their relative abundance in different tribes of Telangana, Manipur, Sikkim and Assam.

Core bacterial genera	Assam						Telangana			Manipur			Sikkim
	Tai-Phake	Tea tribe	Tai-Aiton	Bodo	Karbi	Gond	Koya	Nayak	Kolam	Tangkhul	Kuki	Meitei	Nepali	Bhutia	Lepcha
Prevotella	31.69	43.8	43.14	41.42	42.12	35	39.69	33.18	38.94	49.01	53.46	44.07	30.42	38.87	43.44
Faecalibacterium	18.73	7.92	10.25	8.41	11.27	12.2	10.47	12.02	8.15	9.83	8.76	13.65	17.96	8.53	14.04
Eubacterium	10.37	6.04	9.79	6.74	8.8	7.04	7.57	8.68	5.48	7.43	7.12	5.57	5.09	7.11	2.87
Clostridium	6.67	4.04	3.10	4.38	4.15	6.17	3.28	5.30	3.20	4.17	4.00	4.16	2.5	2.45	3.86
Blautia	2.13	3.38	1.92	1.59	1.91	2.12	2.24	2.34	1.90	2.18	1.77	1.09	1.12	1.01	1.38
Collinsella	1.41	1.31	2.05	2.52	1.93	1.70	1.19	1.41	1.24	0.60	1.312	0.79	2.43	2.22	1.22
Ruminococcus	2.38	0.41	0.61	1.9	1.25	1.01	0.84	0.63	0.93	0.56	1.06	0.25	2.23	0.48	0.54
Roseburia	1.52	4.36	2.65	0.97	3.92	1.71	0.91	1.49	2.28	1.81	0.63	2.83	1.25	2.25	0.92
Bacteroides	6.96	0.25		7.24	0.39	2.66	1.19	5.60		0.52	0.43	4.03	9.05	5.54	0.99
Dialister			1.54	1.53	1.11	2.57	1.4		1.97	0.82	0.96	1.8	1.14	1.77	1.16
Butyrivibrio		2.23	1.76				0.82	1.15		1.98		1.13	0.92	0.78
Bifidobacterium	2.31		0.81			0.30	2.31	0.49			0.29		5.33	3.81	2.64
Lactobacillus	0.95		1.73		1.10	0.25	0.60		1.62		0.72	0.20	3.77	3.36	6.68
Butyricicoccus				0.23		0.25	0.22		0.32
Butyricimonas								0.55	1.41	0.90	0.36
Veillonella		0.58	1.12	0.34	0.17			0.55		0.23	0.33	0.14		0.39
Ethanoligenens				0.36		0.85			1.04
Parabacteroides				0.15		0.57				0.16		0.54
Mitsuokella						0.42							0.75
Alistipes			0.40			0.91						0.46
Treponema									6.09
Desulfohalobium				0.15			0.16								0.18
Streptococcus		0.19							0.22						0.14
Gordonibacter									0.20
Erysipelothrix									0.46				0.21		0.23
Escherichia			0.53								0.31	0.34
Phascolarctobacterium										1.31
Selenomonas													0.92
Pseudobutyrivibrio			0.19
Megasphaera			2.26