Fig. 4

Differentially abundant genera between the oral microbiomes of cats on dry and wet diets. DESeq was used to test for the presence of differentially abundant operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in the oral microbiome of the cats on a dry- compared to wet-food diet (Phyloseq version 1.10.0). The DESeq test was applied to OTUs that had been filtered to remove singletons and species with an abundance below 0.005 %. The figure presents those OTUs that were found to be significantly different (p < 0.01) between the two diets. Positive log₂-fold change values indicate enriched OTUs in the dry diet, and negative log₂-fold change values indicate enriched OTUs in the cats eating a wet diet. Abbreviation: NA non-assigned