Additional file 1: Table S1. of Comprehensive analysis of the fecal microbiota of healthy Japanese adults reveals a new bacterial lineage associated with a phenotype characterized by a high frequency of bowel movements and a lean body type

English translation of the lifestyle questionnaire and the scoring system used for each question. Table S2. Subject characteristics and the results of the Illumina sequencing. Table S3. Operational taxonomic unit table for the whole subjects (% in whole reads). Table S4. Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) results and representative sequences for the operational taxonomic units. Table S5. Abundance and prevalence of the 66 identified bacterial families and alpha-diversity scores stratified by area of residence. Table S6. Abundance and prevalence of the 66 identified bacterial families and alpha-diversity scores stratified by gender. Table S7. Abundance and prevalence of the 66 identified bacterial families and alpha-diversity scores in the two clusters identified in the male subjects. Table S8. Raw questionnaire data. Table S9. Questionnaire scores stratified by area of residence. Table S10. Questionnaire scores stratified by gender. Table S11. Questionnaire scores in the two clusters identified in the male subjects. Table S12. Detailed Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) search results for the operational taxonomic units shown in Table 8. Table S13. Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology (QIIME) bioinformatics pipeline scripts used in the present study. (XLSX 8232 kb

Additional file 3: Figure S1. of Comprehensive analysis of the fecal microbiota of healthy Japanese adults reveals a new bacterial lineage associated with a phenotype characterized by a high frequency of bowel movements and a lean body type

Distribution of subjects’ genders stratified by area of residence. Gender ratios of female to male represent in brackets. Among the areas sharing the same letter above their bar graphs, significant difference was not observed (P ≥ 0.05) in the gender ratio. (PPTX 144 kb