Table 2. Shared phyla among the buccal cavity and rectum communities from samples collected immediately before and after death (less than 10 min).

Phylum	Shared OTUs	Shared reads				Shared OTUs	Shared reads
		AM01	AM02	BM01	BM02		AA01	AA02	BA01	BA02
Actinobacteria	7	894	770	1002	988	1	8	4	2	1
Bacteroidetes	3	3	35	5	25	57	10900	9166	7793	9631
Deferribacteres	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	37	903	4
Firmicutes	24	3705	2106	3844	2272	78	2615	4531	4369	4210
Proteobacteria	21	4437	3193	4181	3530	19	578	361	1138	730
Tenericutes	1	1	18	4	33	0	0	0	0	0
Verrucomicrobia	0	0	0	0	0	1	67	122	243	112
Total shared reads	56	9040	6122	9036	6848	157	14172	14221	14448	14688
Total reads		9175	8810	9177	8792		14940	14985	14943	14950
Shared reads/Total reads (%)		98.53	69.49	98.46	77.89		94.86	94.90	96.69	98.25

OTU: operational taxonomic unit. Sample names are as defined in Table 1.