Core Microbiome
We identified Class Bacilli , Order Pseudomonadales , FamilyBeijernickiaceae , Genera Sutterella and Eubacterium
elegans group, and 27 ASVs as representing the community core
microbiota of Kirtland’s Warbler within the full dataset, overlapping at
all time periods (Table S4). Thirteen of the 27 core ASVs are members of
class Clostridia and nine ASVs are found within genusBacteroides . The remaining core ASVs belong to Phyla
Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and additional classes within
Firmicutes. One ASV is unclassified after Kingdom Bacteria. We also
identified a temporal core in the birds sampled at all three sampling
points. Individuals retained 18-26 ASVs, present at each sampling
period, which represented an average of 25.06% (range: 8.58%-50.00%)
of ASVs detected per individual per time point.