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Table 3 Relative abundance of dominant phyla in AH frogs and NH frogs

From: Functional analysis for gut microbes of the brown tree frog (Polypedates megacephalus) in artificial hibernation

OTUs

NH frogs

AH frogs

Fall

Winter

Spring

4 °C

Bacteroidetes

17.07 ± 10.66

19.07 ± 12.45

11.82 ± 6.25

17.63 ± 14.49

Firmicutes

45.24 ± 13.82a

42.94 ± 13.56a

42.92 ± 10.56a

13.26 ± 13.84b

Fusobacteria

2.27 ± 5.22

4.67 ± 9.46

3.62 ± 3.76

0.23 ± 0.31

Proteobacteria

12.02 ± 11.59

14.98 ± 8.99

13.77 ± 6.87

57.82 ± 38.77

  Aeromonas

0.09 ± 0.20

0.13 ± 0.24a

0.01 ± 0.02

0.001 ± 0.002b

  Citrobacter

5.26 ± 8.58

3.11 ± 5.32a

3.55 ± 4.99

7.03 ± 0.57b

  Pseudomonas

0.02 ± 0.07

0.01 ± 0.02

0.02 ± 0.02

13.48 ± 23.14

Verrucomicrobia

4.37 ± 7.23

7.65 ± 12.07

8.79 ± 15.45

9.50 ± 11.75

  1. Abbreviations: AH frogs artificially hibernating frogs, NH frogs nonhibernating frogs. Values are means ± SD. Within each row, values not sharing superscripts (a and b) differ significantly (p-value < 0.05, Student’s t-test). The RLS-related genera listed in Methods differ in AH frogs compared with NH frogs are underlined