Diversity and composition of gut microbial communities characterized in wild carnivore species that lack a cecum.

We included the major taxa (comprising ≥1% relative abundance +/- SD, where available), as well as Bacteroidetes for comparison with omnivore/herbivore data. “Minor” indicates that the taxon was present, but at levels < 1% relative abundance; “NA” indicates that data were not available; “NP” indicates that a taxon was not present in the data.