Table 4.

OTUs in the more complex community dataset that displayed differential abundances over the course of 2 weeks of storage at room temperature

	Mean reads (% of dataset total) at:						Significant after a MHC?
OTU	4 h	2 weeks	Exponentiated coefficient	2.5 % CI	97.5 % CI	P value
Bifidobacterium1	6.82	7.25	1.0005	1.0001	1.0010	0.022	No
Enterobacter	0.89	6.44	1.0031	1.0009	1.0053	0.006	No
Bifidobacterium3	2.84	3.96	1.0012	1.0005	1.0018	<0.001	Yes
Bacteroides2	1.32	2.38	1.0013	1.0004	1.0022	0.005	No
Prevotella	2.20	0.14	0.9910	0.9876	0.9945	<0.001	Yes
Subdoligranulum	1.49	0.80	0.9978	0.9964	0.9992	0.002	No
Peptostreptococcaceae1	1.82	0.83	0.9974	0.9962	0.9986	<0.001	Yes
Peptostreptococcaceae2	0.77	1.93	1.0022	1.0012	1.0032	<0.001	Yes
Anaerostipes1	1.66	0.79	0.9987	0.9978	0.9996	0.004	No
Veillonella	1.08	0.55	0.9951	0.9936	0.9966	<0.001	Yes
Ruminococcus	1.12	1.40	1.0008	1.0002	1.0013	0.004	No
Pseudobutyrivibrio	1.38	0.18	0.9957	0.9938	0.9977	<0.001	Yes

The OTUs shown shift significantly in abundance in the more complex faecal community dataset over two weeks of storage at room temperature. Column descriptors as noted for Table 3