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. 2021 May 17;3:38. doi: 10.1186/s42523-021-00100-9

Table 2.

Oral bacterial phyla (relative abundance, %) present in plaque (supragingival and subgingival plaque) and saliva samples from healthy adult dogs

	Source			Statistics
Phyla	Saliva (n = 26)	Subgingival (n = 25)	Supragingival (n = 26)	SEM	P-values
Euryarchaeota	0.3^a	0.3^a	0.1^b	0.068	0.0351
Actinobacteria	2.7^b	5.5^b	10.5^a	0.838	< 0.0001
Bacteroidetes	35.9^a	29.0^b	24.7^c	1.386	< 0.0001
Chlorobi	1.2	1.4	1.3	0.147	0.8963
Chloroflexi	0.9^a	0.3^b	0.4^b	0.139	0.0016
Elusimicrobia	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.011	0.0529
Firmicutes	13.2^y	18.5^x	12.5^z	0.770	< 0.0001
Fusobacteria	8.1^a	9.5^a	4.9^b	0.746	< 0.0001
GN02	0.2^b	0.3^b	0.6^a	0.082	< 0.0001
Proteobacteria	22.1^b	25.7^b	39.5^a	1.788	< 0.0001
SR1	4.2^a	2.0^c	3.1^b	0.338	< 0.0001
Spirochaetes	7.4^x	5.8^y	1.4^z	0.547	< 0.0001
Synergistetes	0.3^z	1.1^x	0.6^y	0.100	< 0.0001
TM7	0.08^a	0.04^b	0.05^ab	0.010	0.0026
Tenericutes	3.3^a	0.5^b	0.2^c	0.226	< 0.0001
WPS-2	0.06	0.04	0.01	0.011	0.3538
ZB3	0.07^a	0.02^b	0.01^b	0.010	0.0002

^a−cMeans with different superscripts within a row differ by Tukey’s test (p < 0.05)

^w−zMeans with different superscripts within a row differ by Wilcoxon’s test (p < 0.05)