Table 1.
Summary of next generation sequencing data.
Figure 1.
16S rRNA gene surveys reveal hierarchical partitioning of all 15 samples.
Bacterial communities were clustered using principal coordinate analysis of the full-tree-based Unifrac matrix. Each point corresponds to a sample colored to indicate locations in the GIT. Three principal components (PC1, PC2, and PC3) explained 89.3% variation.
Figure 2.
The relative abundance of bacterial communities at phylum (A) and genus (B) levels in the GIT of three roe deer.
Figure 3.
Bacterial phyla with significant differences in the GIT of three roe deer.
The asterisk means the significance at P<0.05.
Figure 4.
Heatmap analysis showing the distributions of bacterial communities at genus level in the GIT of three roe deer.
Individual cells are color-coded according to raw Z-scores to show the abundance of a particular genus in each region. The asterisk means the unclassified bacteria at the family, order, or class levels.
Figure 5.
Significant difference at genus level of bacterial communities along the GIT of three roe deer.
The asterisk indicates P<0.05, and # means the unclassified bacteria at the family, order, or class levels.
Figure 6.
The relative abundance of methanogen in the rumen and cecum of three roe deer.
Figure 7.
Heatmap analysis showing the distributions of methanogens communities in the rumen and cecum of three roe deer.
OTU, operational taxonomic units.