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Table 2 Bacterial phyla of loggerhead sea turtle cloacal and oral samples, and tank water samples from the rescue centers present at > 1% relative abundance on average per sampling site

From: Characterization of oral and cloacal microbial communities of wild and rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)

Bacterial phyla

Cloacal (n = 15)

Oral (n = 11)

Tank water (n = 3)

Actinobacteria

0.52 ± 0.18

1.37 ± 0.31

1.09 ± 0.87

Bacteroidetes

21.74 ± 2.16

33.88 ± 2.43

30.26 ± 4.33

Epsilonbacteraeota

2.48 ± 0.63

2.02 ± 0.57

4.15 ± 3.36

Firmicutes

6.74 ± 1.35

1.75 ± 0.37

0.22 ± 0.08

Kiritimatiellaeota

12.78 ± 4.04

0.46 ± 0.39

0.03 ± 0.03

Lentisphaerae

1.99 ± 0.72

0.14 ± 0.06

0.06 ± 0.03

Patescibacteria

0.17 ± 0.08

0.60 ± 0.24

1.83 ± 1.83

Planctomycetes

0.08 ± 0.04

1.65 ± 1.06

0.63 ± 0.61

Proteobacteria

48.60 ± 6.21

56.08 ± 3.19

58.62 ± 1.56

Spirochaetes

3.30 ± 1.47

0.44 ± 0.14

0.01 ± 0.01

Verrucomicrobia

0.03 ± 0.01

0.30 ± 0.14

1.14 ± 0.97

  1. Values represent mean percentage ± SE, with mean values above 1% in bold