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Table 2 Sex, age, pool system the dolphins were kept in and antimicrobial (AB) treatment (Y=Yes, N=No)

From: Highly abundant core taxa in the blow within and across captive bottlenose dolphins provide evidence for a temporally stable airway microbiota

Dolphin ID

Sex

Year of birth

Age level

Pool system

AB treatment

Coen

M

1995

2

Dolphin Beach/ Dolphin Bay

N

Evie

F

2008

1

Dolphin Beach

N

Gemma

F

1988

3

Dolphin Beach

Y

Howie

M

unknown

unknown

Endeavour

Y

Kiama

M

2003

2

Dolphin Beach

N

Moki

F

unknown

unknown

Dolphin Beach

N

Nudgee

M

unknown

unknown

Endeadvour/QVC

Y

RB

M

1990

3

Dolphin Bay

N

Scooter

F

1983

4

Dolphin Bay

N

Sirius

M

1979

4

Dolphin Beach

N

Squeak

F

1979

4

Dolphin Beach

N

Starbuck

M

1998

2

Dolphin Beach/ Dolphin Bay

N

Stella

F

2013

1

Dolphin Beach

Y

  1. Ten dolphins stayed in the same pool for the entire sampling period. Three dolphins were moved between two pools at least once. We assigned four different age levels: 1: 0–10 years, 2: 11–20 years, 3: 21–30 years, 4: 31–40 years