Table 2.

Summary statistics of microbial interactions in the skin of a cohort of healthy dogs

	Chin	Abdomen	Axilla	Perianal region	Inner pinna	Nasal skin	ID area	Dorsal back
Total interactions	373	226	179	93	35	7	23	2
Common interaction	139	103	104	43	13	4	13	2
Unique interactions	234	123	75	50	22	3	10	0
Inter-site interactiona	3	20	10	12	0	0	0	0
% of unique interactions	63%	54%	42%	54%	63%	43%	43%	0%
% of co-occurrence	92%	88%	79%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

ID interdigital

^aInter-site interactions represent families from a specific skin site, affecting other families from another skin site