Fig. 5

Several pathways that were more active in S. hispidus than S. fulviventer were greatly contributed to by Lactobacillus species. a Catalysis of proline biosynthesis by bacterial enzymes (PWY-4981). b Catalysis of the conversion of D-galactose to D-glucopyranose 6-phosphate, the more metabolically versatile carbohydrate that can feed directly into glycolysis, by the enzymes of the Leloir pathway (PWY66–422). c De novo biosynthesis of purines (PWY-6123). d De novo synthesis of ADP for the direct feeding of ATP generation, a pathway that can only accept ribonucleoside diphosphates instead of the mono- or triphosphate forms (PWY-7220). e Anaerobic breakdown of glucose to energy (PWY-5100). Table 1 Mean abundance (%) and standard deviation of the most abundant phyla identified with 16S rRNA gene sequencing in both S.fulviventer/S.hispidus (listed respectively)