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Table 3 Most prevalent bacterial species in cat and dog faeces samples selected according to the folloeing criteria: Ozyme tube samples, at T = 0, core and middle samples

From: Validation of method for faecal sampling in cats and dogs for faecal microbiome analysis

Bacterial species

Adjusted p value

Significance level

Mean relative abundance cat (%)(SD)

Mean relative abundance dog (%) (SD)

Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum

0.03

*

0.03 (0.05)

0.22 (0.2)

Catenibacterium mitsuokai

0.02

*

0.97 (1.04)

0.22 (0.5)

Clostridium hiranonis

0.008

**

0.10 (0.1)

0.67 (0.8)

Collinsella intestinalis

0.003

**

0.18 (0.22)

3.06 (3.44)

Collinsella stercoris

0.003

**

2.16 (3.42)

0.09 (0.08)

Firmicutes bacterium CAG424

0.005

**

0.34 (0.0)

0.05 (0)

Firmicutes bacterium CAG646

0.03

*

0.21 (0.0)

0.05 (0)

Holdemanella biformis

0.01

*

0.39 (0.43)

0.06 (0)

Prevotella copri

0.02

*

65.1 (16.7)

29.5 (27.3)

  1. Significant differences in relative abundance between cat and dog core faeces sample taken at timepoint T0. Adjusted p values refer to Benjamini-Hochberg corrected Wilcoxon rank sum test comparisons