Table 1.

Effects of feeding a raw meat‐based diet on canine and feline gut microbiota.

Animal species	Effect of the raw meat‐based diet	References
Dog	Increase of the Fusobacteria and Proteobacteria phyla. Decrease of Firmicutes, especially of Ruminococcaceae and Erysipelotrichaceae family and the Faecalibacterium genus	Schmidt et al. (2018)
Dog	Diet affected 27 microbial families and 53 genera. Bacteroides, Prevotella, Peptostreptococcus and Faecalibacterium were reduced while Fusobacterium, Collinsella, Slakia Lactobacillus and Clostridium increased.	Bermingham et al. (2017)
Dog	Decreased proportion of Lactobacillus, Paralactobacillus and Prevotella with a parallel higher relative abundance of Clostridium, Bacteroides and Fusobacterium.	Sandri et al. (2017)
Dog	Decreased abundance of Prevotella, Faecalibacterium and Sutterella coupled with reduced GH families involved in the degradation of complex plant‐derived polysaccharides. Higher abundance of Fusobacteria and Actinobacteria and increased proportion of genes related to amino acid and fatty acid/lipid degradation pathways.	Alessandri et al. (2019)
Cat	Higher abundance of Fusobacterium, Eubacterium and Clostridium together with a reduced abundance of Prevotella	Butowski et al. (2019)
Cat	Greater proportions of Peptococcus, Pseudobutyrivibrio and significantly reduced abundance of Faecalibacterium and Succinivibrio. Higher abundance, yet not statistically significant of Fusobacterium and Clostridium.	Kerr et al. (2014)