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Table 2 Relative abundance of bacterial phyla found in the fecal microbiota of forty bison, divided into two different groups

From: The fecal microbiota of semi-free-ranging wood bison (Bison bison athabascae)

Phylum

Group A (n = 19)

Group B (n = 21)

P value

Acidobacteria

0.00008

0.00004

0.43

Actinobacteria

6.4

1.2

0.002

Bacteroidetes

0.49

0.65

0.26

Chlamydiae

0.018

0.036

0.24

Chloroflexi

0.0029

0.013

0.014

Deferibacteres

0

0.00005

0.033

Deinococcus-Thermus

0.00004

0.0023

0.40

Elusimicrobia

0.000013

0.000008

0.72

Fibrobacteres

0.016

0.018

0.80

Fusobacteria

0.0029

0.0022

0.67

Gemmatimonadetes

0.007

0.15

0.038

Lentispaerae

0.0028

0.00005

0.24

Plantomycetes

0.15

0.42

0.065

Proteobacteria

18.7

42.5

<0.0001

Spirochaetes

0.035

0.022

0.35

Synergistetes

0.0001

0.0018

0.24

Tenericutes

0.0015

0.0030

0.15

Verrucomicrobia

0.54

1.3

0.056

Firmicutes

70.9

39.3

<0.001

SR1

0

0.000055

0.11

TM7

0.42

0.42

0.97

Unclassified

2.3

3.3

0.06

  1. Phyla that were significantly different area indicated in bold.