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Table 2 Relative abundance of phyla found in experimental groups

From: Weight-loss in obese dogs promotes important shifts in fecal microbiota profile to the extent of resembling microbiota of lean dogs

Phylum

Treatments

P value

LG

OG

AWL

Mean ± sem

Mean ± SEM

Mean ± SEM

Actinobacteria

0.7 ± 0.01B

0.5 ± 0.01C

4.3 ± 0.04A

 < .0001

Bacteroidetes

15.6 ± 0.05C

20.4 ± 0.06B

22.8 ± 0.06A

 < .0001

Firmicutes

71.9 ± 0.07A

53.0 ± 0.07C

54.8 ± 0.07B

 < .0001

Fusobacteria

9.4 ± 0.04C

22.4 ± 0.06A

14.8 ± 0.05B

 < .0001

Proteobacteria

2.3 ± 0.02C

3.5 ± 0.03B

4.1 ± 0.03A

 < .0001

  1. OG: obese group; WLG: weight loss group; LG: lean group
  2. A,B,C Means followed by different letters differ by 5% in the Tukey test adjusted by PROC GLIMMIX