Table 3.

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

Oral bacteria			Dry	Wet	SEM	P-value
Supragingival plaque samples
Phyla	Genus	Species
Actinobacteria			1.72	1.79	1.01	0.18
	Actinomyces		1.13	0.10	0.78	0.37
		Actinomyces timonensis	1.09a	0.04b	0.77	0.03
Bacteroidetes			82.43	83.35	1.99	0.75
	Unclassified Bacteroidales		0.01b	0.04a	0.01	0.003
	Capnocytophaga		6.65a	2.86b	1.13	0.04
		Capnocytophaga canimorsus	1.96a	0.58b	0.34	0.01
	Unclassified Porphyromonadaceae		0.46b	1.99a	0.43	0.03
	Porphyromonas		67.46	72.46	4.19	0.42
		Porphyromonadaceae bacterium COT-184 OH4590	0.46b	1.99a	0.43	0.03
		Porphyromonas cangingivalis	16.8a	9.44b	2.05	0.03
		Porphyromonas canoris	5.07b	8.34a	0.91	0.03
		Porphyromonas gingivalis	0.28b	0.67a	0.07	0.003
	Tannerella		0.15b	0.59a	0.07	0.001
		Tannerella forsythia	0.15b	0.59a	0.07	0.001
Candidatus Gracilibacteria			0.06	0.01	0.02	0.19
Euryarchaeota			0.05	0.36	0.12	0.09
Firmicutes			2.50	4.14	0.57	0.07
	Filifactor		0.42b	1.05a	0.16	0.02
		Filifactor alocis	0.42b	1.05a	0.16	0.02
	Unclassified Peptostreptococcaceae		0.13b	0.95a	0.10	0.0001
		Peptostreptococcaceae bacterium oral taxon 113	0.13b	0.95a	0.10	0.0001
		Streptococcus agalactiae	0.16b	0.56a	0.11	0.03
Fusobacteria			0.04b	0.32a	0.06	0.01
Proteobacteria			12.05	8.21	1.41	0.08
	Neisseria		5.38	4.37	1.00	0.49
		Neisseria weaveri	2.37a	0.33b	0.42	0.0002
	Arcobacter		1.77a	0.09b	0.34	0.01
	Conchiformibius		0.29a	0.09b	0.04	0.003
		Conchiformibius steedae	0.29a	0.05b	0.04	0.002
	Pasteurella		2.77a	0.18b	0.86	0.01
		Pasteurella dagmatis	2.59a	0.11b	0.84	0.001
Spirochaetes			0.96	1.27	0.26	0.43
		Unclassified Treponema	0.34a	0.02b	0.12	0.01
		Treponema medium	0.05b	0.17a	0.03	0.01

Groups with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05).