Table 1. Plylum level prokaryotic microbiome in cecal feces from rock ptarmigans (% in total reads).

Wild Japanese rock ptarmigans (n=4)				Captive bred Svalbard rock ptarmigans (n=5)
Actinobacteria	32.08	±	6.58	Firmicutes	84.05	±	9.58
Firmicutes	28.57	±	1.88	Actinobacteria	6.21	±	4.33
Bacteroidetes	17.61	±	2.54	Bacteroidetes	5.57	±	7.64
Synergistetes	11.50	±	2.27	Proteobacteria	1.56	±	1.56
Proteobacteria	4.53	±	0.89	Verrucomicrobia	1.42	±	2.82
Spirochaetes	1.54	±	0.66	Tenericutes	0.43	±	0.32
Euryarchaeota	0.64	±	0.32	Cyanobacteria	0.14	±	0.19
Cyanobacteria	0.04	±	0.03	TM7a)	0.12	±	0.16
Tenericutes	0.03	±	0.02	Synergistetes	0.02	±	0.02
Acidobacteria	0.02	±	0.01	Chloroflexi	0.01	±	0.00

Data are shown with mean ± standard deviations, a) Hugenholtz et al. [13].