Attributes of collected fecal and cloacal samples.

Both 16S and DNA shotgun metagenomic sequencing were performed on most samples. The two most-prevalent species are indicated for each individual in Table 1. Dominant species ascribed by the DNA shotgun metagenomics: Cje = Corynebacterium jeikeium, Pac = Propionibacterium acnes, Sfl = Shigella flexneri, Cpe = Clostridium perfringens, Fva = Fusobacterium varium, Bov = Bacteroides ovatus, Ckr = Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii, Eco = Escherichia coli, Sps = Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, Pav = Propionibacterium avidum, Dac = Delftia acidovorans, Cul = Corynebacterium ulcerans, Bsu = Brevundimonas subvibrioides, Esp = Enterococcus sp., Sma = Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Ljo = Lactobacillus johnsonii, Fmo = Fusobacterium mortiferum, Pan = Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, Csp = Clostridium sp., Bvu = Bacteroides vulgatus, Cce = Clostridium celatum.