Table 1.

Correlation between the most prevalent bacterial genera (those that averaged more than 1% of the relative abundance across all samples) between the nasopharyngeal (NPS) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples in clinically healthy feedlot calves

NP/BAL bacterial genera	Rathayibacter	Mycoplasma	Bibersteinia	Sneathia	Moraxella	Mannheimia	Succinivibrio	Ruminococcus	Flavisolibacter
Rathayibacter			0.913**
Corynebacterium	0.777*
Prevotella							0.946**	0.983**	0.937**
Clostridium							0.826**	0.853**	0.771*
Streptococcus		0.877**		0.985**	0.917**	0.961**
Moraxella							0.961**	0.993**	0.956**
Promicromonospora			0.965**
Mannheimia							0.964**	0.995**	0.956**
Fusobacterium				0.879**	0.863**	0.917**
Bacteroides		0.792*		0.999**	0.912**	0.979**
Turicibacter	0.911**

^* P value <0.05 ^** P value <0.01

The table shows the significant Pearson correlation coefficient between locations. Statistical significance is indicated with asterisks