Table 3.

Effect of diet on prominent (˃0.01%) bacterial genera in feces of dogs as determined by 16S rRNA gene Ion-Torrent next-generation sequencing

Item, % of total sequences		Diet1,2		SED3	P-value
		LF–HS	HF–LS
Family	Genera
Bacteroidaceae	Bacteroides	18.1	21.5	3.80	0.45
Prevotellaceae	Prevotella	8.63	4.57	1.22	0.008
	Paraprevotella	3.25	2.27	0.657	0.15
Fusobacteriaceae	Clostridium cluster XIX	17.5	17.6	1.88	0.95
	Fusobacterium	6.18	6.97	0.864	0.39
Erysipelotrichaceae	Catenibacterium	2.89	3.14	0.897	0.79
	Erysipelotrichaceae 4	2.29	2.35	1.38	0.94
	Solobacterium	1.30	0.583	0.286	0.023
	Turicibacter	1.38	0.492	0.661	0.19
	Allobaculum	1.19	1.28	0.343	0.81
	Clostridium cluster XVIII	0.136	0.107	0.029	0.34
	Coprobacillus	0.117	0.058	0.020	0.016
Peptostreptococcaceae	Clostridium cluster XI	5.02	4.17	0.636	0.20
Lachnospiraceae	Blautia	1.73	1.93	0.366	0.49
	Clostridium cluster XlVa	0.630	0.600	0.082	0.72
	Roseburia	0.342	0.833	0.327	0.16
	Coprococcus	0.208	0.158	0.036	0.20
	Lachnospiracea 4	0.133	0.167	0.025	0.21
	Hespellia	0.125	0.150	0.028	0.40
Ruminococcaceae	Faecalibacterium	0.375	0.317	0.082	0.42
Acidaminococcaceae	Succinispira	4.44	3.40	0.809	0.23
Veillonaceae	Megamonas	2.28	3.89	0.857	0.087
Lactobacillaceae	Lactobacillus	4.44	5.39	2.04	0.65
Sutterellaceae	Parasutterella	1.28	1.69	0.458	0.39
	Sutterella	1.23	1.31	0.288	0.78
Enterobacteriaceae	Enterobacter	1.13	1.24	0.653	0.87
	Escherichia/Shigella	0.458	0.300	0.163	0.32
Succinivibrionaceae	Anaerobiospirillum	0.975	0.933	0.277	0.88

¹HF–LS = high fat–low starch; LF–HS = low fat–high starch.

²Least square means for N = 12 dogs per diet.

³SE of the difference for comparison between diets.

⁴Uncertain genera (incertae sedis).