Table 2.

Oral bacteria (relative abundance, %) that were significantly different between treatments present in subgingival plaque samples from healthy adult dogs consuming a commercially available wet or dry food

Oral bacteria			Dry	Wet	SEM	P-value
Subgingival plaque samples
Phyla	Genus	Species
Actinobacteria			1.90	3.01	0.80	0.32
Bacteroidetes			81.04	73.64	2.65	0.08
	Capnocytophaga		3.27	1.24	0.84	0.11
		Capnocytophaga cynodegmi	0.79a	0.33b	0.13	0.03
	Porphyromonas		67.60	62.08	4.01	0.35
	Tannerella		0.27b	0.64a	0.07	0.002
		Tannerella forsythia	0.27b	0.64a	0.07	0.002
Euryarchaeota			0.06	0.24	0.10	0.66
Firmicutes			3.97b	7.81a	0.82	0.01
	Filifactor		0.97	2.01	0.42	0.11
	Unclassified Peptostreptococcaceae		0.56b	1.94a	0.36	0.04
		Peptostreptococcaceae bacterium oral taxon 113	0.56b	1.94a	0.36	0.04
	Streptococcus		0.53b	1.42a	0.21	0.01
		Streptococcus agalactiae	0.33b	0.99a	0.14	0.02
Fusobacteria			0.11	0.39	0.11	0.11
Proteobacteria			11.27	12.07	1.44	0.70
	Neisseria		2.32	2.24	0.62	0.93
	Arcobacter		1.29	1.47	0.48	0.85
	Conchiformibius		1.32a	0.20b	0.22	0.004
Spirochaetes			1.61	2.60	0.48	0.18
	Treponema		1.61	2.60	0.48	0.18
Synergistetes			0.04b	0.21a	0.05	0.03
	Fretibacterium		0.04b	0.21a	0.05	0.03
		Fretibacterium fastidiosum	0.04b	0.21a	0.05	0.03

Groups with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05).