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. 2022 Jan 29;17:2. doi: 10.1186/s12263-021-00703-6

Table 3.

Differentially abundant genera in obesity/metabolic diseases

No. of studies 3 or more papers with obesity-associated 2 papers with obesity-associated 1 paper with obesity-associated 0 paper with obesity-associated
3 or more papers with lean-associated Faecalibacterium (13,3) [1820, 22, 26, 44, 46, 58, 59, 66, 69, 71, 72] Bifidobacterium (6) [2022, 57, 58, 68] Alistipes (10) [20, 26, 44, 53, 5860, 68, 76, 77] Odoribacter (6) [29, 44, 59, 60, 77, 78]
Prevotella (5,6) [26, 38, 67, 72, 73, 75] Roseburia (4) [53, 63, 66, 68, 69, 79] Akkermansia (9) [23, 28, 36, 44, 45, 47, 49, 65, 70] Oscillospira (6) [20, 36, 68, 70, 75, 77]
Bacteroides (6,4) [18, 24, 26, 41, 43, 44, 46, 48, 69, 72] Clostridium (4) [20, 38, 46, 49, 53, 72] Turicibacter (3) Oscillibacter (4)
Ruminococcus (4, 5) [20, 23, 39, 44, 49, 62, 63, 68, 69] Eubacterium (3) [20, 44, 68]
Dialister (4,4) [19, 20, 36, 50, 55, 70, 72, 79] Desulfovibrio (3) [18, 20, 44]
Lactobacillus (3,6) [19, 21, 38, 46, 57, 60] Anaerotruncus (3)
Coprococcus (3, 5) [18, 23, 44, 48, 63, 68, 69, 71]
Blautia (3,6) [38, 39, 44, 48, 73, 74]
2 papers with lean-associated Streptococcus (4) Bilophila Holdemania Oxalobacter
Lachnospira (3) Methanobrevibacter
Fusobacterium (4) [18, 20, 22, 44] Acholeplasma
gemmiger
1 paper with lean-associated Sutterella Veillonella
Phascolarctobacterium (3) Megasphaera Staphylococcus Haemophilus
Dorea (4) Megamonas Rothia Anaerostipes
Collinsella (3) Adlercreutzia Pseudomonas Parabacteroides
Acidaminococcus (3) Parasutterella
Lactococcus
Klebsiella
Haemophilus
0 paper with lean-associated Succinivibrio (3) [38, 69, 78] SMB53 Alloprevotella
Escherichia (3) [57, 60, 68] Porphyromonas Lachnospiraceae incertae sedis
Peptoniphilus Burkholderiales
Mitsuokella
Escherichia-Shiguela
Catenibacterium
Bacillus
Aggregatibacter

*n (lean-associated, obesity-associated)

For most studies used 16s rRNA sequencing, which lacks species resolution, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, and Akkermansia muciniphila were combined with respective genera as they were the primary species that constitute respective genera