Table 2 Oral bacterial phyla (relative abundance, %) present in plaque (supragingival and subgingival plaque) and saliva samples from healthy adult dogs

Euryarchaeota

0.3^a

0.3^a

0.1^b

0.068

0.0351

Actinobacteria

2.7^b

5.5^b

10.5^a

0.838

< 0.0001

Bacteroidetes

35.9^a

29.0^b

24.7^c

1.386

< 0.0001

Chlorobi

1.2

1.4

1.3

0.147

0.8963

Chloroflexi

0.9^a

0.3^b

0.4^b

0.139

0.0016

Elusimicrobia

0.03

0.04

0.03

0.011

0.0529

Firmicutes

13.2^y

18.5^x

12.5^z

0.770

< 0.0001

Fusobacteria

8.1^a

9.5^a

4.9^b

0.746

< 0.0001

GN02

0.2^b

0.3^b

0.6^a

0.082

< 0.0001

Proteobacteria

22.1^b

25.7^b

39.5^a

1.788

< 0.0001

SR1

4.2^a

2.0^c

3.1^b

0.338

< 0.0001

Spirochaetes

7.4^x

5.8^y

1.4^z

0.547

< 0.0001

Synergistetes

0.3^z

1.1^x

0.6^y

0.100

< 0.0001

TM7

0.08^a

0.04^b

0.05^ab

0.010

0.0026

Tenericutes

3.3^a

0.5^b

0.2^c

0.226

< 0.0001

WPS-2

0.06

0.04

0.01

0.011

0.3538

ZB3

0.07^a

0.02^b

0.01^b

0.010

0.0002