Figure 1.
Rarefaction curves comparing the number of reads with the number of phylotypes found in the DNA in the feces of five rhinoceroses.
Table 1.
Phylotype coverage and diversity estimation of the 16S rRNA gene libraries of the feces of rhinoceroses from the pyrosequencing analysis1.
Figure 2.
Fecal bacterial community at the phylum level.
Relative abundance of bacterial groups (phylum level) in the feces of five white rhinoceroses.
Figure 3.
Fecal bacterial community at the family level.
Relative abundance of bacterial groups (family level) in the feces of five white rhimoceroses.
Figure 4.
Fecal bacterial community at the genus level.
Relative abundance of bacterial groups (genus level) in the feces of five white rhinoceroses.
Figure 5.
Bacterial distribution among the five samples.
Double dendrogram showing the bacterial distribution among the fecal samples of five rhinoceroses. The bacterial phylogenetic tree was calculated using the neighbor-joining method, and the relationship among samples was determined using Bray distance and the complete clustering method. Total 50 genera with the abundance higher than 0.1% within total bacteria were sorted for the analysis. The heatmap plot depicts the relative percentage of each bacterial genus (variables clustering on the Y-axis) within each sample (X-axis clustering). The relative values for the bacterial genus are depicted by color intensity in the legend indicated at the top of the figure. Clusters based on the distance of the five samples along the X-axis and the bacterial genera along the Y-axis are indicated at the top and bottom of the figure, respectively.
Table 2.
Relative abundance of predominant OTUs (percentage) in the feces of five African white rhinoceroses1.
Table 3.
Shared phyla among the 16S rRNA gene libraries from five rhinoceroses.
Table 4.
Shared phyla among the 16S rRNA gene libraries from four healthy rhinoceroses1.
Table 5.
The predominant core microbiota (family level) in the samples from four healthy rhinoceroses1.
Table 6.
Information on the rhinoceroses used in this study.