Average percentage abundance of species present in ‘core’ microbiome.

Average percentage abundance of species present in the negative and positive lung cancer groups, with corresponding P values from one-way ANOVA. % column shows average abundance, St. Dev. column shows standard deviation, and Count column shows the number of patients in each group in which the species was found, out of the total number of patients. The top division represents species present in all samples, the second division those found in all negative samples, and the bottom division those found in all positive samples.