In agreement with Fouts et al. (2012), the data presented here concurs that the different sexes have
significantly different genera of bacteria present in their urine, different numbers of genera and that sequences in the main belong to the phylum Firmicutes for both male and female samples, as in the study by Siddiqui et al. (2011).
All communities were dominated by Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes (Table S5 and Figure S4), but the distributions of bacterial
genera were
significantly different (p < 10 − 16) and the up and downstream communities clustered separately (Figure S5).