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Table 3 Summary of the Spearman's rank correlations between proportion of food intake of the three major foods and abundance of the top five taxa

From: Seasonal responses and host uniqueness of gut microbiome of Japanese macaques in lowland Yakushima

  

Leaf

Fruit/Seed

Invertebrate

Taxnomic level

Taxa

Spearman's correlation coefficient (ρ)

P

Spearman's correlation coefficient (ρ)

P

Spearman's correlation coefficient (ρ)

P

Phylum

Firmicutes

0.059

0.59

−0.081

0.47

0.087

0.43

Bacteroidetes

0.182

0.10

−0.165

0.13

−0.061

0.58

Actinobacteria

0.099

0.37

−0.199

0.07

−0.271

0.0125*

Spirochaetes

0.527

 < 0.0001*

−0.646

 < 0.0001*

−0.433

 < 0.0001*

Tenericutes

0.606

 < 0.0001*

−0.683

 < 0.0001*

−0.297

0.0060*

Family

Lachnospiraceae

−0.060

0.59

0.067

0.55

0.213

0.05

Ruminococcaceae

0.141

0.20

−0.195

0.08

−0.030

0.79

Prevotellaceae

0.160

0.15

−0.156

0.16

−0.128

0.24

Erysipelotrichaceae

−0.131

0.24

0.167

0.13

0.305

0.0047*

Spirochaetaceae

0.523

 < 0.0001*

−0.645

 < 0.0001*

−0.437

 < 0.0001*

Genus

Prevotella

0.160

0.15

−0.156

0.16

−0.128

0.24

Blautia

−0.206

0.06

0.214

0.05

0.260

0.0171*

Faecalibacterium

−0.078

0.48

0.030

0.79

0.026

0.82

Coprococcus

0.010

0.93

−0.019

0.86

−0.091

0.41

Ruminococcus

0.277

0.0107*

−0.371

0.0005*

−0.346

0.0012*

  1. *Significant after false discovery rate (FDR) correction