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Table 8.

Oral bacterial genera (relative abundance, %) that were significantly different between treatments present in SUP samples from healthy adult dogs consuming dental chews or diet alone

Genus	SUP				Statistics
	CT (n = 12)	BC (n = 11)	DL (n = 10)	GR (n = 11)	SEM	P-value
Corynebacterium	0.91^b	1.40^b	4.21^a	2.19^b	0.44	<0.0001
Leucobacter	1.05^b	2.21^a	2.28^ab	1.41^ab	0.44	0.01
Paludibacter	0.25^a	0.15^ab	0.14^b	0.15^ab	0.04	0.01
Porphyromonas	14.92^a	15.37^a	8.46^b	11.69^ab	2.03	0.01
Tannerella	0.58^a	0.19^b	0.17^b	0.27^b	0.09	0.001
Capnocytophaga	0.65^c	1.51^b	2.38^a	1.59^b	0.21	<0.0001
Bergeyella	1.16^b	2.92^a	4.21^a	3.99^a	0.67	0.0002
Streptococcus	1.43^b	0.35^b	0.55^b	2.89^a	0.65	0.01
Peptococcus	0.30^ab	0.65^a	0.15^ab	0.22^b	0.15	0.04
Filifactor	0.33^a	0.41^a	0.08^b	0.12^b	0.06	0.0002
Fusibacter	2.28^a	1.65^b	0.59^c	1.09^c	0.20	<0.0001
Anaerovorax	0.36^a	0.31^a	0.12^b	0.22^ab	0.05	0.001
Leptotrichia	0.07^ab	0.07^ab	0.17^a	0.06^b	0.03	0.01
Lautropia	0.61^b	1.04^a	1.78^a	1.14^a	0.24	0.001
Neisseria	1.72^b	3.28^a	3.92^a	5.20^a	0.62	<0.0001
Propionivibrio	0.10^a	0.05^b	0.03^b	0.04^b	0.01	0.001
Desulfomicrobium	1.99^a	0.86^b	0.53^b	0.91^b	0.24	<0.0001
Desulfovibrio	1.64^a	0.55^b	0.05^b	0.34^b	0.22	0.0001
Campylobacter	0.93^a	0.79^a	0.45^ab	0.31^b	0.11	0.0003
Pasteurella	0.86^z	1.42^x	1.62^w	0.92^y	0.21	0.03
Enhydrobacter	15.00^a	9.69^b	4.86^c	8.09^bc	1.50	<0.0001
Moraxella	6.30^b	13.81^a	14.35^a	12.61^a	1.95	0.004
Treponema	1.56^a	0.98^ab	0.46^b	0.58^b	0.18	0.0001
TG5	0.95^a	0.26^b	0.14^b	0.29^b	0.07	<0.0001
Acholeplasma	0.06^a	0.09^a	0.02^ab	0.02^b	0.02	0.01

^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).