Table 2.

Relative abundance of predominant bacterial phyla (overall relative abundance >0.5%) present in the feces of rhesus macaques

	Healthy free- ranging (HF)	Healthy corralled (HC)	CID	HF compared with HC	HF compared with CID	HC compared with CID	HF compared with HC+CID
Phylum	Median (range)			P
Firmicutes	73	65	61	0.004	0.003	0.511	<0.001
	(53–95)	(44–92)	(4.6–86)
Bacteroidetes	19	28	29	<0.001	0.009	0.983	<0.001
	(3.0–35)	(5.0–50)	(0.7–46)
Proteobacteria	1.3	0.9	1.7	0.212	0.320	0.007	not applicable
	(0–11)	(0.1–5.4)	(0.1–76)
Spirochaetae	0.8	0.7	1.3	0.937	0.074	0.308	0.138
	(0.0–3.8)	(0.1–8.1)	(0.0–7.6)
Actinobacteria	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.558	0.308	0.558	0.136
	(0.0–3.1)	(0.2–1.3)	(0.1–56)
Euryarchaeota	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.203	0.039	0.354	0.049
	(0.0–15)	(0.0–3.3)	(0.0–5.0)
Tenericutes	1.0	0.4	0.4	<0.001	<0.001	0.986	<0.001
	(0.0–3.1)	(0.0–1.1)	(0.0–2.0)