Table 1 Numbers of bacterial species associated with animals and plants: examples

 Drosophila

Wong et al. [183]

 Marine sponge

Schmitt et al. [184]

 Coral

Ainsworth et al. [185]

 Honey bee

Moran et al. [186]

 Termite gut

He et al. [187]

 Nemotode C. elegans

Dirksen et al. [188]

 Butterfly. H. erato

Hammer et al. [189]

 Human gut

Nam et al. [190]

 Human skin

Ying et al. [191]

 Bovine rumen

Jami and Mizrahi [192]

 Great ape gut

Ochman et al. [124]

 Cottonmouth snake

Colston et al. [193]

 Marine iguana

Hong et al. [194]

 Folivorous flying bird

Godoy-Vitorino et al. [195]

 Panda gut

Xue et al. [196]

 Rice

Edwards et al. [197]

 Alga Ulva australis

Burke et al. [198]

 Carnivorous plant

Koopman et al. [199]

 Arabidopsis

Bai et al. [200]

 Phyllosphere

Bulgarelli et al. [78]

 Oak rhizosphere

Mendes et al. [201]