Table 1.
Sequence coverage, number of OTUs and richness of rumen samples included in this study at 93% similarity.
Figure 1.
Phylum level comparison of rumen microbiome associated with solid and liquid rumen phase from white tailed deer (n = 3) and elk (n = 15).
Values shown represent the percent of sequences assigned to a particular phylum averaged over all samples of the same type.
Figure 2.
Microbial composition of wild ruminants assessed using Jaccard analysis of OTUs at 97% identity.
Samples are labeled animal elk or white tailed deer - animal number - S (rumen solids) or L (rumen liquids).
Figure 3.
Principle component analysis of 16S profiles from rumen contents collected from elk (Solid-blue, Liquid-Black), white tailed deer (Solid-Red, Liquid-Green).
Table 2.
Weighted-UniFrac comparison of microbial communities found in rumen samples based on Jaccard analysis of 97% similarity.
Figure 4.
Diversity of bacterial phyla found in the Liquid (A) and Solid (B) fraction of rumen contents collected from 15 elk.
Samples are arranged from the lowest to highest level of Firmicutes based on the percentage of total reads assigned to that phyla. Numbers along the x-axis indicate the animal identification number each sample was obtained from. The percentage of total reads (x-axis) assigned to each phylum is plotted for all 15 samples (y-axis).
Table 3.
Taxa identified within the core microbiome of the rumen of elk, white tailed deer.