TABLE 3.
Number of specialist OTUs within each host group belonging to each bacterial phyluma
| Phylum | No. of specialist OTUs in the indicated host species |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Aves |
Mammalia |
Actinopterygii |
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| Chicken | Duck | Goose | Gull | Cow_F | Cow_UG | Deer | Dog | Horse | Human | Swine | Perch | Trout | |
| Acidobacteria | 0 | 44 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
| Actinobacteria | 21 | 49 | 183 | 191 | 169 | 30 | 38 | 9 | 111 | 48 | 64 | 14 | 3 |
| Bacteroidetes | 10 | 22 | 50 | 32 | 193 | 288 | 120 | 23 | 328 | 67 | 140 | 18 | 11 |
| Chlamydiae | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Chloroflexi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Chrysiogenetes | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Deferribacteres | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Deinococcus-Thermus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Firmicutes | 169 | 147 | 302 | 324 | 1,211 | 375 | 319 | 287 | 1,085 | 611 | 484 | 182 | 46 |
| Fusobacteria | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Lentisphaerae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Planctomycetes | 2 | 5 | 0 | 32 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Proteobacteria | 54 | 109 | 82 | 264 | 400 | 78 | 132 | 14 | 474 | 63 | 117 | 142 | 38 |
| Spirochaetes | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Synergistetes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tenericutes | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 49 | 9 | 19 | 1 | 48 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Verrucomicrobia | 3 | 13 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 34 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
a
Aquificae, Armatimonadetes, BRC1, Caldiserica, Chlorobi, Elusimicrobia, Fibrobacteres, Gemmatimonadetes, Nitrospira, OP11, Thermosulfobacteria, Thermotogae, TM7, and WS3 were represented by 1 to 20 specialist OTUs and were omitted from the table. “Cow_F” and “Cow_UG” represent cattle fed forage and unprocessed grain, respectively.