Age-Based Variations in the Gut Microbiome of the Shennongjia (Hubei) Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana hubeiensis)

Table 1

Proportions of the top 10 most abundant phyla and other phyla (combined) of microbes identified in the three groups of fecal samples of Shennongjia golden snub-nosed monkeys.

Phylum	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
Firmicutes	0.560	0.550	0.500
Bacteroidetes	0.172	0.203	0.251
Verrucomicrobia	0.029	0.036	0.043
Spirochaetes	0.081	0.054	0.045
Tenericutes	0.029	0.039	0.025
Proteobacteria	0.010	0.007	0.019
Planctomycetes	0.025	0.009	0.007
Fibrobacteres	0.003	0.016	0.006
Cyanobacteria	0.012	0.006	0.011
Euryarchaeota	0.002	0.001	0.0001
Other phyla	0.077	0.079	0.088

SD: standard deviation.