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From: Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range

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Dominant bacterial and archaeal operational taxonomic units (OTUs).

Similarities (Supplementary Tables 8 and 9) of the 50 most abundant and 50 most prevalent bacterial (77 unique OTUs, (a,b) and archaeal (64 unique OTUs, c,d) OTUs to the most closely related type (a,c) and cultured (b,d) strains are plotted together with prevalence and abundance data. Background shading indicates nominal within-species (dark grey), within-genus (mid grey) and below genus (light grey) similarities. Prevalence indicates the percentage of samples that an OTU occurs in. The size of each circle indicates the mean abundance of each OTU (Supplementary Tables 8 and 9). Bacterial OTU abundances were multiplied by a factor of 15 relative to archaeal OTUs. Mbb. Methanobrevibacter.

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